The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > If the user buys a computer with the OS preinstalled and the software > preconfigured, that bypasses the OS install even more than making it > artificially easy to install would, and leaves them just as open to potential > later pitfalls.
So the easier you make it to use a computer, the more you leave the users who just want to use one open for pitfalls because the easier you make the usage, the less these users are required to learn. We could support the hypothesis that is has become much easier to use computers than it used to be by pointing out that nowadays there are more clueless users than ever before. I would argue against it because the first computer I've had was much simpler than the one is which I have now, and I didn't need to know even 1/4 of what I need to know now. So computers have become more difficult to use because users need to know more, and their education hasn't kept up. Why have computers become so much more difficult to use? One big reason for that are the attempts to make them easier to use which required increasingly powerful hardware, leading to more possibilities, leading to greatly increased complexity, leading to having to know more and also to more possibilities for pitfalls. What is the relation between the amount of knowledge needed nowadays to avoid and deal with pitfalls compared to the same relation 25 years ago? Computers haven't become easier to use. They have become more complex and more difficult to use. What has changed is the expectations. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87haqungvq....@yun.yagibdah.de
