Re: very sad.... No more....

[Helmut Steinwender <shrink101@home.com>]

Linux is in my opinion, a few years back where windows was in usability. This gap is rapidly narrowing, though, if the current trend toward desktop sophistication continues. The downside is, that it may well become too windows-like in terms of loosing flexibility and transparency. I use Mandrake 8 on one of my machines and while it installs and runs flawlessly out of the box, it is easy to destroy that pretty picture by doing too much 'configuring'. There are so many interdependencies and I have many times wasted my install by upgrading components or just customizing desktops that I had to reinstall. I hope that a debian distribution, while somewhat harder to set up, is less vulnerable to corruption. The nice thing about Linux is that the configuration is essentially all text-based and with sufficient knowledge, one should be able to troubleshoot anything, which is not so under windows or mac. I think that in terms of general acceptance as a desktop, it will need to bedome more userfriendly before it c
> A perfectly valid point of view, Eddie, but a tad harsh and unnecessary.  
> There is nothing inherent in the architecture of Linux that should make it 
> anymore difficult for any user (lazy or otherwise) than Apple or Windows.  It 
> is only the absence of suitable tools and organized documentation that leads 
> to that impression.  
> 
> IMO, rather than reject the person who only wants to use applications rather 
> than learn the nitty-gritty of the hosting OS, all of us should be supporting 
> the development of open-source Linux tools that significantly improve 
> usability.  The more users there are, the more comprehesive the suite of 
> available applications will become - and that is surely to everyone's benefit.
> 
> Unnecessarily rejecting users seems to me to be somewhat short-sighted.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 03 June 2001 09:35, Eddie Torres wrote:
> > Good post Jason.   Maybe if people attempted to learn linux then they could
> > bitch about it.  If they don't want to learn then they need to go back to
> > apple or windows because they definitely don't belong using linux.
> >
> > Eddie Torres
> > www.veloct.net
> 
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