Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote:
I'm not trying to prove you wrong with this post, but for an average user that is not really able to do himself the "housekeeping" in the OS (besides applying updates), I'd say you will find / have found more fundamental changes switching from Windows XP to Windows 7 than you would have got switching from Windows XP to Mandriva Linux (or many other Linux distros, for that matter). The times when using Linux implied typing "obscure" commands (*) to get the system up and running are now a past thing.
Let me start by agreeing with you, at least in part : moving from XP to Windows 7 /is/ a nightmare, and I speak as an IT professional with over 25 years experience. And the removal/lack of an "up" button, and a copyable path, in Windows 7 Explorer are stupidities beyond belief. But with Windows (XP, 7, whatever), the expectation is that the user will /use/ the system, and that is the end of it; with the *X family, on the other hand, the expectation is that the user will also /create/ the system, at least in part, because all of the different flavours of *X mean that many, if not most, add-ons are supplied in source form because there is no one binary that would/could ever run on all *X. And there are very few Windows users who would willing accept that before they can use something, theg must first compile it. And there is, as you correctly say, the arcane command language, consisting in the main of obscure non-mnemonic strings of primarily consonants, in which when a vowel /does/ occur (as in, say, "cat" or "grep") the resulting word still requires a deep knowledge of geek-speak in order to make any sense whatsoever. *X may have its strengths, and the number of apparently intelligent people who choose to use it and to proselytise for it is a good indication of this, but it also has its weaknesses, and for me, and for the vast majority of the home IT world, those weaknesses far outweigh its strengths. ** Phil. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
