Ahh, the old usability conondrum again. How to make a hacker friendly Os into a user-friendly OS. The problem is one of perception. If you ask people in the Mac camp windows is hopelessly user-unfriendly and the Windows version of Office ugly and unintuitive.
Obviously, people will prefer a particular OS not because one is more user-friendly than the others but primarily because that is what they encounter first or because a compelling feature that the others may lack. So if desktop linux is to progress beyond a computer science curiosity, it would need the active intervention of a higher authority--such as a school administration-- "Mark M. Barrios" wrote: > all this talk about non-techies + linux reminds me of a quote i read > somewhere it goes something like: > > "...the user spends too much time operating the machine than > accomplishing the task at hand" > > to each his/her own, i say > the desktop linux revolution will happen soon enough :D > > Enrique A Suarez wrote: > > >Note: This post forwarded from another newsgroup shows how much more educational > >and advocacy work must be done. > >It was made in response to UP President Nemenzo's essay, "Ibagsak ang Digital > >Imperialism". > >Ike > > > >Ngunit paano nga ba mag-shift from Microsoft to Linux? Tulad ko, may computer ako > >sa bahay kung saan ang nakaprogram ay Microsoft. Ang ginagamit kong internet > >browser ay Internet Explorer. Ang ginagamit kong program sa pagsusulat ay MS Word. > > Kung makakakuha ako ng Linux program, maari ko bang i-delete ang Microsoft program > >sa computer at i-install ang Linux bilang kapalit? Anong mangyayari sa mga saved > >files ko? Hindi ko na ba sila maa-access? O meron bang conversion program upang > >maari ko pang mabasa ang mga saved files ko (na naka .doc o .rtf extension) Kung > >naka-Linux ako, pwede pa ba akong maka-access ng yahoogroups? > >ursula > ><walang alam sa programming> > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > >To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________ > >EDSAMAIL. Internet the way YOU WANT IT. > >www.edsamail.com.ph > >_ > >Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > >To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > > >To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > >PROTECTED] > > > > > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
