On 10/1/2011 5:39 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 06:12, Marko Vojinovic<vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> As a natural consequence, Linux is a priori not designed for >> noobs and newbies who do not want to learn. > > I think this is a problem. > > When I started using Linux back in 1999 (Caldera OpenLinux before the > SCO fiasco, fwiw(, I expected the user-friendliness to eventually > improve. It did not. But my expectations were not related to myself, > but thinking about friends and family I wanted to convert to Linux. > > Back in the OS/2 Warp days, IBM also thought "SYS 3175" was an OK > error message and that end users didn' t need more human-friendly > error messages. > > FC > > PS: Just including aliases for common Windows commands the users are > expected to find would have helped a lot of newcomers, but actually > the general concensus seems to be "this is Linux, it's not designed to > please Windows users, windows users should learn Linux and how it > works, instead". This is not meant as a Flame War starter. But... I agree with you. Grandma and grandpa, mom and dad. Billy and Bobbie can go to a store and actually buy a computer, in boxes, come home and connect the pieces and *it just works*. *Everything just works*. Then along comes a Linux Guru friend and he replaces their OS. And suddenly things get complicated. And things stop working. Unless they get some strange file from some man that lives in a cellar in some country with a really odd name. Or perhaps things work but not quite as well. As much as *I* like Linux it will never become a common desktop until that happens. Until it *just works*. IMO of course. -- David -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
