A few things to point out. Many of the features that windows users see as power over the command line result from dos being like a subset of unix. I think linux makes difficult tasks easy and some perceived easy tasks difficult. On Debian for example, upgrading/removing/installing is way easier then Windows. Setting up your mplayer to automatically play files you find on the web, that takes a little more work then just installing winamp. However, the power you get with mplayer can't be matched. Windows hides a lot of information to seem less confusing. Linux could just as easily hide this information, and you can create such an information hiding interface if you want. However, because there's a wider base of users to support, a freedom of ideas, open source programs may look less pollished to the newcomer then those you pay fore because they are the first to introduce new ideas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'W. Nick Dotson'" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>; "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:06 PM Subject: RE: Stradling Cultures--was: "Re[2]: A easier way to createcd'susing easy cd creator" > I'm probably in a fairly unique position here. I have worked professionally > with both Windows at FS and GNU/Linux when I worked with Stallman years ago. > I think GNU/Linux is more friendly to we hackers because it has such an > extensive set of really cool tools. It is also not much less friendly than > DOS where Windows falls somewhere in between. > > It's good to see a KESI person on this list, I feel a little less lonely. > Maybe we can convince a Duxbury person to show up too. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
