Re: [tlug] refurbished Thinkpad X60 with Coreboot & Linux

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 12/28/2013 03:04 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Middleton writes:
>
>   > As much as everyone likes to hate the unity interface it is pretty easy
>   > for non technical users, IMNSHO more so then windows or osx ;)
>
> Sure.  Wii is even easier yet.  Your point is what, precisely?

Its a much better fit for a general purpose computer for most people.

> Mine is "non-technical users of *what*?"  The people who hate Unity
> want to use their computers as general purpose information processors.
> Unity shines for those who only want to use two apps[1] by making the
> possibilities of general purpose computers fairly inaccessible, even
> if you know your way around computers pretty well.

At the moment, mostly the web, email, skype some educational and network 
games.

I haven't had problems working my way around ubuntu with unity.

>  And it's very
> costly if you have a slow computer (eg, using Ubuntu, or even Fedora
> 19, in a VM from Parallels or VirtualBox on my aging (4 years old)
> MacBook Pro is just not acceptable).

Works fine on her 6 year old thinkpad ;)

> ...
> Beavis:  Hey, Butthead, that Unix fragmentation fiasco was fun!
> Butthead:  Heh-heh, heh-heh.  Yeah, Beavis, let's do that again!

I would take fragmentation over single vendor.

Edward