>> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about >> their OS, correct? > > Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open SuSU > 11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that she didn't > want to know. When I queried this, she said: > > "When I am at school, the IT department does it for me. When I am at home > here, you do it for me. When I am in Japan, Daddy does it for me. Why do I > need to know how to do it?" >
That is the kind of user who can learn! If the small admin job had been "diagnose kernel crashes" and her answer would have been "I am a brain surgeon, not a computer scientist. I fix the brain, you fix the computer. Today is the one day off that I have to spend with my family and I don't want to spend it with the computer instead." then her reluctance would have been valid. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
