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An office suite most certainly should be installed by default in a distro aimed at ordinary users. That you'd think otherwise is stunning.
by gnaritas 15y ago
An office suite most certainly should be installed by default in a distro aimed at ordinary users. That you'd think otherwise is stunning.
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- vault_ 15y agoNeither Windows nor OS X comes with an office suite installed by default. It wouldn't be unprecedented if a linux distro were to come without one.
- eitland 15y agoFor distros targetting ordinary users the office suite should come preinstalled as long as you can't buy one at Staples. That said this is also part of what makes Linux shine compared to especially Windows: Usually everything is installed and Just Works in 20 minutes after started installation. (Have been fixing peoples borked Windowses from '95 to '08 so I'm allowed to be opinionated here. : )
- gnaritas 15y agoThat's mostly not true, nearly every windows install from a store bought machine has trial versions of office already installed. Word and Excel are expected programs for most people.
- vilya 15y agoWhat's your reasoning? FWIW I always thought Fedora was aimed at more tech-savvy users, not "ordinary" users (whatever that may mean).
- maratd 15y agoAn "ordinary user" is incapable of installing an operating system. They don't even know what an operating system is. A linux distro should assume that if the user is installing the OS himself, he isn't ordinary and should quite simply ASK what the user wants to install, instead of assuming. This sort of stupidity forces me to look for the most minimal install ISO for every distro I deal with.
- dextorious 15y ago"""An "ordinary user" is incapable of installing an operating system. They don't even know what an operating system is.""" No, that's a "strawman user", or some grandma. There are tons of ordinary users that can install Windows. And almost all Mac users can install OS X (there's not much to it). They are no programmers, they are no superusers, they are no admins. They just know how to insert a DVD, answer a few questions and press next. There's no reason to not be able to do the same with Linux, or for a linux distro to assume "that if the user is installing the OS himself, he isn't ordinary". Doubly so for Ubuntu, who wants to be the people's friendly distro and change all that "Linux is for geeks" mentality.
- maratd 15y ago> No, that's a "strawman user", or some grandma. I'm willing to bet you never worked in technical support. The average person is lucky if they manage to turn on a computer.
- dextorious 15y agoAnd I'm willing to bet the kind of users that tend to call technical support are not the kind of users that install their OSs. That doesn't mean that users that can install Windows and OS X are in the minority. It's just selection bias.
- einhverfr 15y agoI have worked technical support. I have done it in person, and I worked the phones at Microsoft before they shipped all these jobs to India. I think most users are quite capable of installing an OS. Most users never call tech support. Otherwise MS woudl be broke.
- technomancy 15y agoWho said he was looking for one aimed at ordinary users?
- DanBC 15y agoHe was talking about Ubuntu. Are you suggesting that Ubuntu is not aimed at ordinary users? > The thing I don't like about Ubuntu is that they take the kitchen sink approach [. . .]