On 10/1/2011 5:39 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 06:12, Marko
Vojinovic<vvmarko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> As a natural consequence, Linux is a priori not designed for
> noobs and newbies who do not want to learn.
I think this is a problem.
When I started using Linux back in 1999 (Caldera OpenLinux before the
SCO fiasco, fwiw(, I expected the user-friendliness to eventually
improve. It did not. But my expectations were not related to myself,
but thinking about friends and family I wanted to convert to Linux.
Back in the OS/2 Warp days, IBM also thought "SYS 3175" was an OK
error message and that end users didn' t need more human-friendly
error messages.
FC
PS: Just including aliases for common Windows commands the users are
expected to find would have helped a lot of newcomers, but actually
the general concensus seems to be "this is Linux, it's not designed to
please Windows users, windows users should learn Linux and how it
works, instead".
This is not meant as a Flame War starter. But...
I agree with you. Grandma and grandpa, mom and dad. Billy and Bobbie can
go to a store and actually buy a computer, in boxes, come home and
connect the pieces and *it just works*. *Everything just works*. Then
along comes a Linux Guru friend and he replaces their OS. And suddenly
things get complicated. And things stop working. Unless they get some
strange file from some man that lives in a cellar in some country with a
really odd name. Or perhaps things work but not quite as well.
As much as *I* like Linux it will never become a common desktop until
that happens. Until it *just works*. IMO of course.
--
David