[Linux-aus] cheap laptops

[NeilBrown]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, russell at coker.com.au wrote:
> 
> Even on this mailing list most people don't compile their own kernels, desktop 
> environment, LibreOffice, etc.  The only strange thing about this discussion 
> is the number of people with unusual use cases that seem to think that my 
> comment about "most people" applies to them.

I think my response to your post was in part because your comment seemed
rather presumptuous.  I genuinely don't know what "most" people need,
and I doubt you or anyone else really does.  Is certainly don't think
that "what many businesses impose on their employees" is a good metric
for "what those employees need".

I'm very happy to hear about your experiences of how current technology
meets your needs, possibly in new and different ways to earlier
technology.  The stuff you mentioned a while ago about convergence was
certainly interesting.  After you can reasonably be expected to be well
informed about your own needs and experiences.

But sweeping generalisation about "most people" tend to annoy me.  They
are rarely based on fact (though maybe that is a sweeping generalisation
on my part ...  maybe I should say that generalisations about "most
people" are, in my experience, rarely accompanied by references to data
sources).

Thanks,
NeilBrown