On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:07 PM, kenneth gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 11:35 +0530, Gautam Chaudhary wrote: > > You should be contributing your time to development and improvement of > > FOSS instead of writing against MS. As long as FOSS alternatives are > > not as feature rich and easier to use as MS products, average user > > won't shift even if they agree with your MS bashing. > > not correct - the whole concepts of 'ease of use' and 'feature rich' are > radically different in the Foss world and the MS world. For example take > the question of an IDE - in the MS world an IDE is one application that > does everything - edit, create directory structure, maintain the VCS, > deploy the app (and take the dog for a walk). There is a button for > everything. Super cool. But ... if there is a problem for which there is > no button? The developer is helpless. In the Foss world the concept is: > rather than one app that does everything, one uses many apps - each one > does *one* thing and does it perfectly. Thus to a genuine Foss > developer, the linux desktop is the perfect IDE - especially if he uses > two or more monitors. > > > > Its not lack of knowledge of FOSS which is helping MS, but > > non-availability of equally good, ready to use and feature rich > > alternatives. > > no - it is lack of knowledge of Foss. And this is not helped by Foss > developers who strive to ape MS or Apple in their apps. Like we had a > perfectly good desktop - both gnome and kde, now gnome looks and feels > like a poor relation of the mac. > > Just like other linux users you again missed the main part - "average users". I'm in this group because i support FOSS and know very well about its capabilities. But not every computer user is a developer. There are people who use computer for "simplifying" their lives. There are people who are not from the present technology age, and did not have any computer knowledge earlier. For them even using Windows is not easy, forget about opening linux terminal and typing a command to fix something. Even the blue screen of death on Windows makes them worried. They can't really understand how softwares actually work, but they only know the basics about using them. Windows and Mac is much easier for these people to use in their everyday life, as they need something that just works. And something that they can get fixed from the small shop at the market next lane. How can you expect such people to ask questions in forums if they don't even understand the working of the softwares? My Dad finds even a java based SE mobile difficult to understand. He only knows how to use the basic functions like calls, sms etc. Do you think he can ever understand linux working and install and fix stuff using commands? If the windows gets a problem, he can easily get it fixed from any small computer shop. We can't simply miss these people. Regards, Gautam Chaudhary http://gautamchaudhary.com -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
