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[Timothy Murphy]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:

> It's just simpler for the end user --- the "just plug it in" philosophy is
> what most of ordinary (non-geek) people expect.

I find this phrase "it just works" incredibly annoying.
Most programs work most of the time,
many work all the time - cat, vi, ssh, apache, perl, openvpn -
but their authors don't go about saying "it just works".

The two programs that cause me the most trouble are NM and KMail2.

NM works most of the time, but when it doesn't work
it is extremely difficult to work out why,
mainly because the error messages might as well be written in Sanskrit.

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