Robert,
You are right of course; but my argument is that Windows have found a
way to address the average user "whining and lazyness"; to the point
that a blind monkey can be productive on a windows machine.
Can anyone argue that pitting two "average" users, side by side; one of
a Windows Machine and the other running a GNU/Linux distro, that the
later will achieve basic proficiency sooner than the former. Please if I
am wrong, let me know.
Under the hood, Windows is CRAP (I am the first to admit that); but they
have created nothing less than a master piece in presenting this crap to
the user. They have managed to create and interface (along with the
hardware support) that allows the most senile of us to be productive and
interface with a computer system. The proof is in the pudding, so to
speak: Windows has dominated the desktop market for decades. The reason
is simple: It is easy to use. the average user does not care how an OS
works; he/she only cares that it does (preferably without their
intervention).
Robert Lewko wrote:
here's my take on it. humans are a lazy bunch of whiners. what they
want is for all the work to be done for them. somehow they don't get
that they have to give the computer instructions to do what they
want. they are too lazy to read any instructions that pertain to the
task at hand. instead they just want to bitch and complain the
interface is too difficult. so application designers do the best they
can, designing a user interface with the best HMI they have, at this
point in time it is a display, keyboard and mouse, to give the user
hints at how to do what they want. where it breaks down is that the
tasks that the user wants to do are highly abstract, so mapping
abstract concepts to the HMI is difficult. the average user would
rather complain than think about how the abstract concept can be
translated to a keyboard and mouse.
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