> I really don't get why people call it hard. You nailed the problem.
Neither do I. That's my point. Guys like you and I are the exact wrong type of individual to figure out a genius UI for the masses. That's why Linux sucks (for the average user) on the desktop. People just want their crap to work. Spare me the Blue Screen of Death and Virus arguments, that's not what I'm talking about. Kudos to your 3 year old now 16. I've got four of those (kids) and none of them knew that there was such a thing as a Windoze machine (exaggeration) until they went to school. There's a Linux desktop in every corner of the house in some shape or form. They're quite happy to use them ... for browsing, lol. Their happiest day in the last year (when it comes to computing) was when I broke down and bought a copy of MS Office *and* iWork (both for the Mac) and stopped forcing them to use that abomination of an office suite we call Open Office (or Libre). For the love of Brian, bring back Star Office if that's what it takes. It was better in 1999 than what we have now (sorta kidding :) ). Again, it's guys like us who think that because my 3 year old can use it, anyone can. That should be a qualifying question for eliminating us from the UI design team. I'm in my 40s now and just want my crap to work. And guess what, it does. Do you know why? Because I broke down several months ago and bought a shiny new 15" MacBook Pro currently running OS X 10.7.3. Oh, I jacked the memory up to 16 GB (supported but undocumented) to run all my Linux VMs. Funny, Linux runs *way* better in a VM on this box than on the bare metal. I don't care why ... not interested ... and that's a different discussion. A good UI is OS agnostic as far as I'm concerned. I just want my crap to work :) ... yea for me cuz it does! Unfortunately, we've blended 3 issue here, UI (and UX), apps and stability. Kinda confuses the problem at hand :) Greg On 1 May 2012 17:27, caziz <ca...@cuug.ab.ca> wrote: > ** > my 16 y.o. has been using Linux since he was 3. > He now uses openoffice (90% Linux side) for his H/S courses. > > The only limit to his juvenile use was it took many years to get > Flash/Shockwave. > "Booty Windows" and "Booty Linux" were 2 of his first sentences. > At 3.5 he could boot the machine with grub. > He was quick to recognize the Blue Screen of Death and > he would solemnly hand me a mechanical pencil, "Daddy needs a pencil" > as the reset button was recessed on the front panel. > > I did bullet proof Linux installs for friends who corrupted their very > old Windows > boxes by going to questionable sites and being too cheap to spring for > anti virus S/W. > > I really don't get why people call it hard. > Most folks are happy to surf with ff, email with tb, and write/read > letters with oo. > ... and they don't need continuous virus and malware scans. > > > > > On 12-05-01 01:56 PM, Greg Saunders wrote: > > I hesitate to add to this at all. I'm sure it will be misinterpreted. > > For the masses, Linux is useless on the desktop. > > >
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