On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 08:54:42AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 11:42 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > is interesting, both for the explicit fact that 1,000,000 people had to ask > > how to exit vi (bad), and for the more subtle implicit fact that, at least > > 1,000,000 > > people are using vi, got the answer to the question they were looking for > > (good), and > > presumably kept using vi (unknown). > > Also 1,000,000 people unnecessarily had to answer the same question > again (bad). > Not to nitpick, but 1,000,000 asked the question. It only had to be answered once (or only answered N times, where N << 10^6, and equal to the number of recorded unique questions on stackexchange). I only point it out because the effort in answering the question is hard, asking the question is easy, especially when its already been answered, as a quick answer provides, if not a great user experience, a better one than having to answer it 10^6 times, or not being able to find an answer at all.
> From this thread you can find at least two people (me and Ben Rosser) > who definitely didn't keep using vi (my very next questions were > "what's an easier editor to use?" and "how do I change the default > editor to something else?"), and are still sufficiently frazzled by the > experience that we still refuse to. :P Right, and I acutally think thats great. You had a problem, you asked the questions you needed answers to, and solved your problem. I personally think the process of identifying whats bothering you, figuring out a solution (by asking questions, getting answers and experimenting), and then implementing your fix is actually a pretty good user experience in and of itself (though that may just be me). :) It suggests that I know what I'm doing, and I am in control of the system that I'm working on. I felt that way the first time that I downloaded slackware around 1996 and had to figure out how to use ppp to establish a dial up connection to my university (side note, in those days, the bits had to travel over the phone line uphill.....both ways) :) Neil > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
