I agree :) im just one of those people who belive that you should really use somthing for the purpose it was created... i dont think linux at the moment and untill now was really meant for multimedia...
:) but thats just my feelings.. P ----- Original Message ----- From: "gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1236319,00.asp | On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:39, Patrick wrote: | > its the same as me saying my cellphones broken if i dont know how to | > make | > calls on it. | | | you're missing one simple point: cellphones are simple. a two-yearold | can figure them out. push buttons, talk. you're done. can you | remember your first time trying to install/use mysql? "how do you start | this thing?" "what do you mean i haven't installed the database? what | did i just do then?"... | | my first serious linux experience was redhat. i installed kde, but | wanted a server... i just wanted the comfortable gui-feeling... command | lines were scary. | | nowadays i read that article and sorta laugh at the trouble the guy was | having... but here's the kicker: he wasn't doing anything terribly | insane. he wanted a computer to watch tv on and record his shows. in | windows, this is a 20min process of "double-click, next, next, ok, | finish". in linux, its 2days or (in my case (thank you ati AIW)) | never. the guy's right on two very good points: | | 1. the current interface is scary for people who want it to "just | work"(TM). a reasonable gui skinning of the command line stuff would do | great things for a distro. imagine, just double click "upgrade system" | on your desktop, have it popup a window with all the command line stuff | scrolling by and nice pretty watermark... then when it's all done, a | nice gui "done". my grandmother would actually be ok with using linux | then. linux needs "finishers". people who write the code that installs | the mysql db and auto-configures the config files in /etc/ for people | who don't know how and don't want to know. | | 2. sadly, linux also needs corporate support. not the "we back linux" | mantra recited by ibm, but actual driver support from hardware | manufacturers so that products like video cards, sound cards and various | usb webcams etc. "just work" out of the box, rather than requiring a | long, painful search for howtos etc. | | i love linux. gentoo especially, but it's only good for people like | me... not this guy. so if we want people like him (and my grandmother) | to use it, then we have to work on #1 and push companies to do #2. | | | -- | a moment of joy in a lifetime of suffering... take it, while you can | - abassador londo molari, babylon 5 | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
