Johnny EvilGuy wrote: You know, the idea that Apple stole from Xerox a few years earlier.
This is true.
Johnny EvilGuy wrote:So anyway, a Mac can do all that crap, but I'd not stick my mother with a *inx OS when she has no desire to tinker...
Linux user-friendly desktop distributions have made much progress, in the last few years. The main problem with it is still the occasional dependency hell. But, just like MacOS X GUIs and linux platform can be used without ever having to be force to use a CLI. Apt-get updates can be setup automatically, easily enough, combined with the "Tech Support for Geeks' Relatives" type of gift cards that I would have bought my own mother, if she hadn't fallen for Apple's (admittedly brilliant) marketing strategies. It's kind of sick, but you have to admire at some level their success in creating their brand as a status symbol for yuppies. I can't stand Apple, personally, but almost completely because of their draconian DRM and policies. As result, even after growing up on Apple //'s and Macs, I haven't touched their blighted products, since System 7.
That being said, there's only some much I can do with an Edubuntu-like distro though, for even my own toddler. It's clear that touchscreen interfaces are vastly more intuitive for small children; they are still developing their own gross-motor skills. So, I'll probably end up succumbing to the dark-side, come this x-mas, as so many developers have focused on iPad applications; Android tablets have been too late to the game.
Glow
