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>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. Sure. > and free beats $$$. Only if the $$$ version sucks. With $$$ you (sometimes) get better usability. Open source developers don't need to think usability. Or they don't want to. Or the users they're making the software for can use even a hair-dryer for internet connectivity, if needed, so they don't really see usability as a problem. > > 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 ? Nope. Possibly Netscape Mail is just fine. Eudora is good for heavy email load... (if you don't hate GUI email clients) >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. I liked the old Apple way: You needed to learn a couple of basic things and then you could universalize them to everything in the computer. There were only couple of things to begin with: The difference between clicking and double-clicking, the idea of documents, the difference between documents and the programs that make them, etc. You got more experienced on the way (even without noticing it yourself). In a couple of years you could defragment your hard disk, administrate the system extensions, track possible problems, etc. Most of the Windows-users seldom learn all that. They remain on the "I just write email with my computer" -level. My mom still doesn't know, when to click and when to double-click. (And when to right-click, for that matter.) Anyway, Apple has left that idea behind. Now they sell Windows with different skin. (UNIX under the skin if of course a good thing.) > > 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-... I'd like the mouse to follow my thought. ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo" -- The Holy Mad Cow
