[clug-talk] Linux Blows...and Sucks

[Juan Alberto Cirez]

Robert,
You are right of course; but my argument is that Windows have found a 
way to address  the average user "whining  and lazyness"; to the point 
that a blind monkey can be productive on a windows machine.
Can anyone argue that pitting two "average" users, side by side; one of 
a Windows Machine and the other running a GNU/Linux distro, that the 
later will achieve basic proficiency sooner than the former. Please if I 
am wrong, let me know.

Under the hood, Windows is CRAP (I am the first to admit that); but they 
have created nothing less than a master piece in presenting this crap to 
the user. They have managed to create and interface (along with the 
hardware support) that allows the most senile of us to be productive and 
interface with a computer system. The proof is in the pudding, so to 
speak: Windows has dominated the desktop market for decades. The reason 
is simple: It is easy to use. the average user does not care how an OS 
works; he/she only cares that it does (preferably without their 
intervention).

Robert Lewko wrote:
> here's my take on it.  humans are a lazy bunch of whiners.  what they 
> want is for all the work to be done for them.  somehow they don't get 
> that they have to give the computer instructions to do what they 
> want.  they are too lazy to read any instructions that pertain to the 
> task at hand.  instead they just want to bitch and complain the 
> interface is too difficult.  so application designers do the best they 
> can, designing a user interface with the best HMI they have, at this 
> point in time it is a display, keyboard and mouse, to give the user 
> hints at how to do what they want.  where it breaks down is that the 
> tasks that the user wants to do are highly abstract, so mapping 
> abstract concepts to the HMI is difficult.  the average user would 
> rather complain than think about how the abstract concept can be 
> translated to a keyboard and mouse.
>


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