Linux on the desktop?

[Deven Phillips]

WELL SAID!!!!


Nelson Garcia wrote:
> 
> MHO:
> User friendliness is a matter of opinion, as evidenced by this thread.  For
> example DOS, a command line OS, was too friendly in some respects except for
> not having a GUI.  What most people equate with friendliness is the
> interface, not what's behind it.  I would argue that Linux is a friendlier
> OS than MS and Mac (interfaces aside) because of the degree of control that
> it provides.
> 
> At any rate, it's only a matter of time before somebody puts together a
> distribution that has all the features that current 'average' users
> conditioned and educated by MS and Mac can relate to easily and, therefore,
> perceive as friendly. In the heart of that distribution will be the same OS
> that they would have found unfriendly otherwise.
> 
> It's all in the packaging, users want to be helped not taught - no typical
> Microsoftie wants to read a man page and not find any examples or not be
> told "click here to make it do what you want".  While we LUGs want to "own"
> our computers, others are just happy to "do stuff and don't care how it
> happens" like my wife says.
> 
> Perhaps user-friendliness can be an added feature, like slapping on
> Bastille-linux to secure your machine, you could slap on "Friendly-linux",
> paperclip icon and all.  Who knows, maybe Microsoft will come up with it and
> charge everybody $95 per user license.  Now that's friendly.
> 
> My last bit of opinion is that the user friendliness in Linux cannot be put
> in a box.  It comes from groups like this and from the interaction common
> among its users.  All things that I have benefited from greatly since the
> first time my friend offered to install linux for me (free of charge).
> I think we are friendly enough.
> 
> Aloha,
> Nelson
> 
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to luau as: dphillips at viata.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')