Linus Torvalds
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:35:13 -0800
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Marcos Pérez López wrote: > > Yo también soy idiota. No se configurar la mayor parte de las opciones > del escritorio, y si he podido empezar a usar linux es porque Gnome me > lo facilitó.
There is a _huge_ difference between "being easy to use" and "_only_ being
easy to use".
"Being easy to use" is important, because it means that there isn't a very
high learning curve. That's _good_.
"ONLY being easy to use" is bad, because it means that once the initial
learning curve is over, maybe you know the program, but you can't actually
do what you WANT to do. And that's *bad*. That's *really* bad. It's
actually much worse than being hard to use to begin with, in many ways.
Game designers know about this. You don't want to make your games too
challenging, because if you do, people never get "into" them. But if you
don't give people challenges along with the game, and don't allow them to
"grow" with the game, the game sucks. It migth be as easy as making things
just "fall faster" (Tetris), or it might be giving the person new
capabilities ("bigger guns").
Gnome people seem to think that once you "got into it", you never want to
do anything more. Not true.
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