--- Sagar Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, long rant coming up:
> Everytime I see a beginner (aka n00b) ask a ...
> beginners question
> here, a large volume of emails that follow harshly
> criticise the
> person asking the question for not googling, or not
> RTFM, RTFA,
> RTFwhatever. ... Well, ok, not googling is
> inexcusable, but anyway.
> What has to be realized by us (the linux community)
> that most of the
> users whom we want to 'convert' are not developers.
> I know hardline
> windows devs, and they're not going to convert.
> Sure, there's a small
> segment of 'upcoming' developers (aka students) who
> should strictly
> follow the usenet rules, and who should RTFM, and
> who should try and
> familiarize themselves with the unix shell.
> But for the larger community of 'others', this
> advice falls on deaf
> ears. Such an audience simply does not have the time
> to do all these
> things; usability is the key issue; things should
> just work. Anyone on
> this list who has used a Mac will know what I'm
> talking about. (Again,
> I know the whole story about apple having to work
> with its own
> hardware, while linux having to work with
> uncooperative hardware
> manufacturers who dont give out their product
> details). But the truth
> is that most things on a Mac just work ... ok, most
> things other than
> their one button mouse.
> Now, its not that linux (or other free os's in
> general, eg the BSD's)
> are not capable of desktop eyecandy. The new opengl
> based stuff going
> into x.org is stunning and way beyond what windows
> will have in years.
> But everyone has to admit to one fact. Linux systems
> are just not as
> usable yet, atleast to my mother and father.
> As the originator of this thread said, he's gonna
> want to double click
> on an rpm 5 years from now, and why shouldn't he?
> After all, that
> makes more sense than hunting out something called a
> package manager
> in your menu, or going to the terminal and typing
> rpm -ivh or
> something. Now, unless we stop bitching about how
> these people should
> stop wanting to double click on rpms and instead go
> out and buy a book
> on bash programming, linux is never going to start
> being a threat to
> windows. It is important to note that the audience
> is no longer people
> who go "ooo look! shiny new kernel!". Unless that
> happens, linux will
> remain a hobbyist os, and windows will remain the
> dominant desktop os
> (i dont think x86 macOS will overtake windows by
> then :) )
>
> So there.
> --
> Sagar Gokhale
Thanks for stealing my words. The main problem with
linux is that it tries to dictate how things should be
done instead of asking how things are wanted to be
done. There should be a Linux version completely based
on majority voting about user interface by the USERS
instead of Linux OS developers.
- Gurudatta Raut
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