Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > le dim 09-12-2001 � 17:57, David a �crit : > >>I replied to your response to the terminals and think they should always >>stay. But yes, I think the product should evolve more toward making it >>easier for newbies, >> > > ??? > I don't see your point. > No : I NEVER use Vi. I'd rather use joe and it's quite simple.
And a double ??? to you. Just joking. I didn't mean that it hadn't evolved towards making it easier for newbies. I have only been using Linux since 7.2 Mandrake, and have seen huge progress toward that point. I guess the evolve part would apply to multimedia video mainly, but I also understand the proprietary part and the problems that involves. That is about the only thing I ever run into at websites and don't work. Shockwave, Flash, and a lot of the things do work and work great. MPG's and AVI's do have problems and require setup. I get them setup one time and if for some reason reinstall, I just don't feel it is worth the hassle setting them all back up again or just don't remember exactly how I did it before. Where did the VI part come from. I don't remember mentioning it. I only use that when I have to, like computer won't boot all the way. > > >>There is an article at the Register talking about how sometimes people >>that have been in Linux for a long time make it to daunting for newbies >>to understand, but that the product has evolved very rapidly to where >>newbies don't have to feel that way and can do almost all setups,.. in >>GUI. >> >>Read it at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23245.html >> > > yes it's a very good article. I was thinking about the fact that some > GUI config tools may show what they do in a educationnal way. > > You got a Great Point there! I was using KPackage the other day and noticed that it was showing the commands that it was using to remove a package and I thought how good that was. Not like I hadn't seen it before, just struck more of a cord at that moment. In an educational way would be something that could help in the future if something breaks on you,... Even if not you learn something about the process.
