My average user definition is based on actual people
> Not all "average users" are nincompoops. I have seen many "average users"
I didnt say they were. There is a difference between being an idiot and being
a computer geek. There is a third species known as 'the average person'.
> successfully installed Windoze 95 on their machine themselves. They are not
> "gurus" or "wizards" of any kind, and most of them don't know enough to code up
> a working C or even Visual-Basic program.
> Ask the same "average users" to install Linux however, and most will throw up
> their hands.
I disagree. If it goes wrong the 'average user' is utterly and completely
screwed installing any OS I've seen. In fact the 'if it goes wrong' biggest
horror I've met is MacOS.
Having to take the mac scsi disk out of the machine and plug it into a PC
to zero it before the macintosh would boot again (floppy or otherwise)
really won the prize
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