Debian Vista
Today I met two people who needed new
PCs. The first one told me that she only uses mail and web for
renting rooms and word for writing the offers. I showed her caliban
with kde and showed her firefox, thunderbird and openoffice.org
writer. "I can see no difference to my PC?" - "Do you mind "k"
instead of "start"?" - "No, why should I?" - "Would you pay 100 EUR
more for Windows instead of Linux?" - "No, not a cent if there is
no difference for me." So she will become my testperson for a Linux
PC user that is neither a freak nor a normal user. Just a simple
simple user.
The second PC is new and uses MS Vista with firefox, thunderbird
and Openoffice.org writer for renting rooms to guests. (They didn't
ask me before shopping). Guess what they payed more? There were two
users: A and B. Logged in as A. "password incorrect" ups. Logged in
as B (no password - sic!). Clicked on "home of A" - "you need
administrator privileges to proceed, confirm?" - yes. Had access to
home of A. Coppied files to B. Opened user administration, changing
password of A. "You need administrator privileges to procees,
confirm?" - yes. Password was changed. Tested the same thing the
other way round. Acts the same. So what the hell was that? And by
the way: 3 GHz and 1 MB RAM. The feeling was equal to
caliban.