Re: Win32 port

[Cory Watson <gphat cafes net>]

Yes, I thought about resending my last message with something along the 
lines of "No I'm not saying that Windows should be under the hood"

At 12:39 PM 6/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>As you point out, corectly, whats under the hood is important.
>"An application is only as good as the OS under it." The gimp for windows
>is kinda cool, but it becomes just another unstable windows app under
>windows. What you should be considering is not gnome under windows to
>eliminate the linux stuff underneeth, but a distribution that doesnt have
>the extra stuff under the hood. a "gnome linux distribution" of sorts.
>just enough to get X running. Linux does very well striped down. You can
>get single floppy versions of Linux. You can not say the same for windows.
>
>On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Cory Watson wrote:
>
> > At 01:05 PM 6/6/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > >But why would you want to?
> >
> > Because regardless of how pretty and advanced GNOME is, Linux is still way
> > too difficult, and too 'big' for the average person.  My mom (bless her
> > heart) has no use for 70% of the stuff that you and I use daily and take
> > for granted in Linux.  They only need the stuff that Windows gives them.
> >
> > I'd love to see the whole world using GNOME, but until something is done
> > with what's _under_ GNOME, I don't think we'll make much 
> progress.  Perhaps
> > Miguel has something up his sleeves.
> >
> > One of my friends argued this with me one day, his point was 'Why should
> > _everyone_ use Linux?  They don't need it!'  My point isn't that they NEED
> > Linux, they NEED a _choice_.
> >
> > Just my $0.02.
> >
> >
> >
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