On Mar 5, 2013, at 19:35 30, Bill Putney wrote: > Apple and to an extent Ubuntu have made great strides in hiding the OS from > innocent eyes. There's still a ways to go but it's come along to a point > where I think 99% of users can ignore Unix like they do the Windows OS.
This is true. Ironically enough, it actually makes Ubuntu significantly *more* frustrating for me. Of course, I doubt I'm a 'typical' user -- the first thing I do on any new system is ask "Ok, how do I get a shell on this thing?" That's a question with no obvious answer on Ubuntu; everything is sealed away under a glitzy plastic UI, and entering terms like 'shell' and 'bash' in their search system yields no useful results. (Yes, I finally did figure out that one uses 'Terminal', just like on OS X). This one example could be multiplied many times over. > If people are using Rivendell on a dedicated computer they never need to know > it's not Windows. Just don't tell them. I would guess that less than 10% of > the volunteer DJ's know that Rivendell is not running Windows. That's been my experience in commercial environments as well. Most users neither know nor care about the underlying OS, just so long as the music plays when it's supposed to. IMHO the entire issue is a red herring so far as end users are concerned. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Stult's Report: | | Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is | | fight the solutions. | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
