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choasforages:
hahahaha this wont affect me directly. forever building my own systems, or by the time it comes out. ill have enough money to buy a mac. notice that mac is having a more aggresive ad campaign then i have seen before. i think this should be used as evidence against microsoft. controling both software and hardware. if we don't get rid of microsoft now we might never be able to. someone need's to ,as much pain as it would cuase, make an idiot linux, like one that calls root a dangeros tool that if used right can correct problems and if played with can trash the system. and that installs kde with idiot options. not lindows just pure linux. maybe i should do this but im no h4x0r, i can just bootstrap the LFS envirment. i can't build x or anything. i guess maybe if voidmain finnally tell me about compiling X. or howabout we all get up and help make an idiot proof linux.

Calum:
what needs to happen is this:

someone needs to come out with a linux desktop environment that emulates windows perfectly. This includes not allowing you to do all the cool stuff that you can do in linux but not in windows. It also includes automating everything that windows automates, despite it maybe not working/being unstable and so on.

The next step is for some major distro maker (it should probably be red hat) to make an installer that's as assuming as windows' installer is. You need not answer any questions, you need not know anything. It will make assumptions about your partitions, the packages you want, everything. (this time, you can easily put it into "i know what i'm talking about" mode if you want at any time).

Finally, the new "dumbass" distro could come out with huge advertising and so on, with the dumb installer, and windows desktop by default. It would however come with a manual (this version would not be free to download since only the dumbasses would get it, and they all want to pay, or better yet, pirate) of course the new desktop and so on could be free (it gets paid for by the people who buy the new distro)

So, amongst all this, the dumbasses get linux, because it is as easy, does all the same things, and is cheaper (even though they still need to pay) now as soon as some moron sees some normal linux user, they will notice immediately that they are missing out on a lot of cool features. They will then go and find out that KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, XFce, windowmaker and so on were installed on their machine by default! wahey! they cry! i am free at last!

This is a good model for two main reasons:

1) the dumbasses do not lose anything because the new desktop will not demand of or offer them anything more than windows did. BUT they will eagerly switch to some real environment as soon as they get pissed off that other linux users can do a shitload more things than them.

2) the fuckers are all paying for it! (and even if they do 60% of them pirate it, so what?) so it's money rolling in to pay for development and advertising!

just my thoughts, butsomebody better get to work if this is going to happen.

choasforages:
i can help manage the project, like make decisions on where it would be going and what to include and what no to include but i am not a major programer. is anybody else interested in this? first it would need a website but i can't even write http/*me likes c++ and calculator basic better*/i any one up for this project

lazygamer:
How much you wanna bet that there will be hackers who join and BEAT the security on Microsoft's special service, just for the thrill of showing it can be done?  

Further making this a possibility is that Microsoft doesn't know how to program stuff that can't easily be defeated. You just expect them to magically learn this?  

TheQuirk:
I'll make a site :-p and <i>try</i> to help. But I don't have alot of programming knowldge, although I am learning lately.

By the way, has anyone tried Sorcerer Linux? It's awsome!

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