Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 30th Jun 2009 16:48 UTC
While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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I'm the "un-geek". Sure, I like gadgets and such, but what guy doesn't? I hate the command line, and I'm just a normal old computer user. I can fix my own problems in Linux, though, which is something I have some problems at in Windows. In Windows, I poke around and try some stuff to see if it works. In Linux, I can actually fix some things on purpose. Funny, huh?
I absolutely hate geeky Linux's and this is why I'm using PCLinuxOS, and I also like Mandriva and Granular, a PCLinuxOS derivative, a lot too. You can keep the rest of them. They're simply too much work. I just want to be able to install it and use it without any fuss. Other distros like Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse and such are a lot of fuss. PCLinuxOS has nothing really to setup after it's installed. No repository garbage to setup to get everything I need, and it does a wonderful job of finding my hardware and getting it up and running for me. I just have to customize my desktop and I'm off and running. That's what I like: to actually USE my computer, not fiddle with it!