Hi All,
I just turned full time Linux (RH9) on my home PC a month ago however I
still use Win2k at work.
I guess I can say I am a Win power user and a basic Linux user. Before
that I installed Linux last month, it was only in 1998 that I had used
it last (RH7x) and I must say that it has improved a LOT from the
usability side.
Anyway, so at home I need mostly a web browser, irc client, email client
and IM (MSN/ICQ) client. For IM I tried both Gaim and also AMSN. Amsn
sucks UI wise and Gaim is good. I needed to install Gaim - just that
took me a week or so (just evenings) of downloading rpm's and sources.
A lot of dependencies and at some point I was just going to throw the
towel however I persisted. Now it is working - except that receiving
files does not work.
I still think that the Linux I have (RH9 - KDE) is not yet available for
the home user. I try to imagine my gf use it .. And that terrorizes me
- no thanks .. I don't want to spend my free time supporting a linux
machine.
I still didn't try to connect by USB stick, my P800 or my Clie to my RH9
... Do not even know if such drivers exist for them, does USB work well
on Linux? I mean .. Is it really plug and play? I am scared of trying
them out ...
Ohhh ... And when it comes to server configuration, the default tools
provided by KDE suck .. only webmin saves the day.
My Kmail email client still crashes, and has some quit quirky issues,
still cannot find a decent email client. Best email no-frills emails
client out there is MS Outlook Express .. From what I saw obviously.
Why is it that from all the Linux email clients I used, they persisted
into adding the signature at the VERY end of the email (i.e. after all
the replies etc...)....
When browsing using Mozilla my fonts do not show well .. May need to get
reading glasses soon it seems.
The User Interface of linux applications is 'designed' by geek devs.
Sorry .. But in most cases, geek devs are good for development and not
for usability. Do any standards exists as how to program user
interfaces with usability in mind?
Also .. Why is it that by default, when you click a window title bar it
rolls up instead of maximizing/sizing it? YES .. I KNOW that just
because Windows does that then it does not mean that Linux interfaces
has to be like that .. However .. Hey, if you want to start 'migrating'
users from Windows to Linux then you have to make the process as less
painful as possible. Too much is expected from home users (non-linux
geeks).
Why not have a Linux distro/app which absracts the Linux file folders
view and makes them look like windows ? No /sbin and stuff ..
It CANNOT be expected that Normal home users learn everything from
scratch. Microsoft won already in that respect, what Linux should do at
this point is to make itself look and FEEEELL much more than windows!!
Basically .. Same look and FEEL (notice CAPS) however totally different
internals.
Just some rants and raves .. Which can go on for ever ...
(boring mode)
regards,
David Vella - GFI Software Ltd. - www.gfi.com
Messaging, Content Security & Network security software
GFI: FAXmaker - LANguard - MailSecurity - DownloadSecurity
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Casha
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:59 AM
To: Malta Linux User Group - general list
Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Linux/Windows
On Thursday 27 May 2004 08:42, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote:
The problem as I see it with the standardization of RPMs is that
different distros have different dependencies for the same rpm.
Precisely... and that's where the main work lies. They *could* make RPMs
distribution-independent. It would take some coordinated effort though.
BTW.... the added traffic on this mailing list is a welcome change.
LOL yes. One moment it's as if the list was lifeless, the next a zillion
new messages fall on my mailbox like a nice soft feather tied to a
truckload of bricks.
Ramon Casha
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