One of the first things I noticed when I first tried MacOS X was that you would never know that it was a Unix system unless you opened a terminal and hit cd /;ls I think that Apple has achieved a good balance between keeping the layout easy to understand for users of their classic system, while still retaining the traditional Unix infrastructure of the system. I just finnished reading a paper at http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/abstract/index.html which argues that the same thing should be done with the Linux desktop. I understand that the Linux file hierarchy can be confusing to users of MacOS classic and Windows, but I think that if it is explained correctly it is not too hard to understand at least the basics (ie. your files go in you $HOME dir, removable media can be accessed under /mnt, etc.). I was wondering what people on the list think. Do we need to hide the basics of the OS in order to make it more user friendly?
Jesse
