% of PCs where Knoppix "just works"
I guess there are quite a few people out there now who are remastering Knoppix and distributing it to large numbers of people, so I'd be interested in some estimates:
What proportion of the laptop and desktop PCs work fine with Knoppix, for non-technical users, doing something useful for them, just by putting the CD in and without entering cheatcodes or doing anything non-obvious?
(To "do something useful", I'm going to assuming you need a functioning GUI, keyboard and mouse, with internet access. I'm also going to assume that my non-technical user can put in his ISP's username, password, phone number, but can't do any more than that.)
To start off, here are my estimates from a fairly limited number of tests in Japan:
Desktops:
Too little RAM: 30%
Video problems: 5%
Keyboard/mouse problems: 0% (Can't be right, but I've never had any...)
Network card or modem unsupported: 25%
Total unsupported bearing in mind overlap in the above: 35%
Laptops:
Too little RAM: 30%
Video problems: 25%
Keyboard/mouse problems: 0% (Can't be right, but I've never had any...)
Network card or modem unsupported: 30%
Total unsupported bearing in mind overlap in the above: 50%
Related to this, is there an easy-to-define set of computers that we can say with 90% confidence will work with Knoppix and derivatives?
For example, if I distribute a CD and say it works with "desktop PCs with broadband", would that get me close?
Re: % of PCs where Knoppix "just works"
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Originally Posted by edochan
What proportion of the laptop and desktop PCs work fine with Knoppix, for non-technical users, doing something useful for them, just by putting the CD in and without entering cheatcodes or doing anything non-obvious?
You might have better odds using Kanotix. Not only does it have support for more hardware, it also uses GRUB. So what you say? Well, you can simply pick how you want to boot by using the up and down arrows. It defaults to German but hitting the down arrow once gets you Engllish. You usually don't have to enter alot of cheat codes (if any) as they are already there for you. I think you would better understand it if you booted Kanotix once for yourself. :)