Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-02-06 at 11:52 +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Phil Pennock wrote:
>>> interested in knowing if anyone's found any bearable alternatives for
>>> programming the unit.
>> Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way of searching the web?
>> http://www.linux.com/feature/121149
> 
> You think that I trust the opinions of the general Linux community on
> much of anything?  This is the community that brought us GNOME et al.
> 
> Any search for opinions of usability will include the gamut covering the
> two extremes that now exist, "Those weirdos use a command-line, don't
> worry about them" to "What's a compiler?"

You forgot the popular "Where do I get skins?", though.

> And none of which tells you how often the sucker crashes, wiping out
> your data or bricking the external device.  You'll get lots of "data
> points" of people saying "it didn't crash for me, therefore it's perfect
> and you're Wrong".
> 

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