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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren: > Seems that we're talking about different things. > > My point was: most of the people don't ever need most of the stuff they get > with an OS (any OS) nowadays. yup. I'm amazed at the amount of crap that comes with linux, and how repetitive a lot of it seems to be, and how impossible it is to find out what the heck you have. still, choice beats no choice. and free beats $$$. > >there are plenty of good email-clients out there. many people are > >getting on to "evolution" and "sylpheed" - and i'd say a lot of people > >use netscape or mozilla -mail apps (or whatever they are called). pine > >isn't bad. > > Tell this to my mom and let's see if she can download and install them. > Then we can discuss about whether she actually can use them (and the > Finnish localisation, which would be needed in the very beginning). > > You're talking about power users and nerds, I'm talking about my mom. hmm, I set my mom up on netscape mail. can you think of any reason why eudora would be better for her ? > >basically bad, but just makes me feel that have they really thought if > >its actually good. of course it's easier to learn for people who've been > >using windows - but is it really usable. > > Yeah, I was thinking about the same, when Apple started to copy more and > more stuff from Windows-side to Mac. Sure, a Windows-like interface is > easier to learn for a person already learnt The Windows Way... but is it > really more usable? what's usable for a newbie ? software that does what you want, not what you say. that's hard to write. it has to be forgiving, and hyper-intuitive. and I don't see it being written. voice recog auta help. > >and a lot of people don't know they can have focus-follows-mouse instead > >of annoying point-and-click -window-activation (and i'm pretty sure > >focus-follows-mouse is easier on ones' wrists). > > Focus-follows is annoying! You've got this all upside down! :) I don't even know that all the focus options in KDE mean, and there's no online help to explain it. gr-r-r-... f
