Adieu, Fedora

[James McKenzie]

On 6/12/11 6:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 08:48 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:20:39 -0700
>> James McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>> We need
>>> to make Linux as easy, if not easier to use than the other 'junk' out
>>> there.
>> When you run Windows for the first time, annoying tutorials badger
>> you incessantly about learning how to use the Windows interface
>> and/or adapting to changes made in the new version of Windows.
>>
>> When you run pretty much any flavor of any new and improved,
>> super wizz-bang, this time we'll capture the desktop for sure,
>> linux interface, you are confronted with anything from a maze
>> of meaningless icons (none of which resemble a "help" button :-),
>> to maybe just a vast expanse of empty space that leaves you
>> equally clueless.
>>
>> As long as Windows has the "Hey! Get your clues here!" attitude
>> and Linux has the "Our awesome designers have better things to
>> do than provide documentation." attitude, the Linux designers
>> will continue to remain puzzled by why the masses aren't flocking
>> to their clearly superior works of intellectual brilliance.
> I haven't run MS-Windows for the "first time" in a long time.   So, I
> don't know what it may or may not offer.
>
> However, what you've said seems (at least to me) to be confusing and
> contradictory.
>
> You seem to be saying that what Windows does is "incessant and
> annoying".  Those would seem to be attributes Linux should strive to avoid.
>
> But, it seems that you are advocating that approach since you seem to be
> saying that what they do is a form of documentation lacking in Linux
> that keeps people from discovering Linux desktops.
>
> For something like GNOME 3, would a pointer to
> http://library.gnome.org/  be something that should be presented the
> first time a user accesses their GNOME 3 desktop?
>
Good start, Ed.  Maybe a short tutorial that can be dismissed by those 
of us that know how the thing works would be better.

James McKenzie