I think this is just a level of abstraction. You can know where pluggins go
if your interested. Just like you can find out where the rpm stuff gets
installed if you care to find out. As far as I'm concerned, in the example
of the rpms, I just know it installed, and often times don't really care at
the moment where it got installed I just want to use the thing I downloaded.
I think to a gear head higher levels of abstraction are disconcerting, to a
non-gear head lower-levels of abstraction are disconcerting. Everyone, has
there own comfort level in which they operate. I don't want to know a think
about a device driver except that it works and how to install it. This
would make some people cringe. Yet, I'm terrible interested in how Pan
handles its TCP connections, to someone else they just want to use Pan.
-----Original Message-----
From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
prob'ly things like d/ling plugins that automagically are installed and
the user doesn't even know where they are...
generally anything which performs Bill's stated goal of making the
workings of the computer or any part thereof completely invisible to the
user...
just my guess...please correct me if I am wrong
Mark Johnson wrote:
> what would be an example of a bad habit?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
>
> Well said Jozef! Well said!
>
> Actually, I don't hate Windows, I just HATE the bad habits that have
> become part and parcel of the entire windows experience.
