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Originally Posted by punky
Downloading isn't counted as a command. It doesn't use the CLI for a start.
If you are installing it for the first time, then you won't need to remove the existing references.
Copying the files to desktop is hardly tough command to do. People could even use the GUI if they find it that difficult.
So that leaves section 4, which contains 4 whole commands. All they have to do is read off a text file and type what it says, it's not rocket science.
Or they could download before connecting the router?
Still, if manufacturers released linux drivers in the first place, it would be as easy on XP. The fact that a some random programmer has managed to create a device wrapper for XP system device files for Linux, is phenomenal. Plus it shows manufacturers hardly need to go to big lengths to produce native linux drivers, surely.
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What point are you trying to get across? It seems that you're arguing for the sake of it unless for some obscure reason you really are living in la-la land and honestly believe that for the majority of the worlds inhabitants it is actually easier to install all manner of hardware under Linux.
My father bought a printer a few weeks ago, he phoned me as he's completely non-technical (like most of the population) and asked me how to install it, he'd already worked out where the USB and power cables went, I told him to put the CD in, it autoran, he clicked next a few times followed by finish and he was able to print.
Now picture the scene if for some reason he was sitting at a linux box
"O.k. open a terminal"
"A what?"
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Which is why every USB device for years always has a big sticker on it "installer drivers before connecting device".
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I'm sure there's a point to that but I'm struggling to find it.