On 3/15/20 9:35 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2020 Sat, 14 Mar 23:54:07 -0700 > tom scripsit: >> On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:08:37 +0000 >> Mark Rousell <mark.rous...@signal100.com> wrote: >> >>> I am not opposing your central message in any way, but... >>> >>> On 13/03/2020 02:59, Steve Litt wrote: >>>> involves programming, and most people can't >>>> do that. >>>> >>>> Oh really? 12 lines of code and they can't do it (or have a friend >>>> help do it)? >>> >>> Really. There is no way on earth that the average computer user could >>> even come close to writing a program or script and this applies to >>> most of their friends too. >>> >>> Some people might be able to use a macro recorder or a graphical tool >>> that allows them to assemble functional blocks to create a script, but >>> even that much would be too much for most end users in my experience. >>> End users want to use, to consume. Creating/programming is not in >>> their mindset. >>> >>> >>> It strikes me that back when I first got into computers (the early >>> 80s), there was a sense of optimism that the rapid growth of widely >>> affordable technology would result in a new golden era of technical >>> literacy. Oh dear, how naive. >>> >>> Instead, the techies, geeks and entrepreneurs made technology >>> *easier*. We made it so that it was easier for end users to consume, >>> to use what was offered to them. There was no need for the >>> non-technical end users to learn anything. It all just works. Or, if >>> it doesn't work, they throw it away and try something else. And so >>> that golden age of technical literacy has never really arrived. What >>> we have now is billions of consumers and, proportionately speaking, >>> fewer and fewer people who actually know how it all works. >>> >>> Thus, the average user (even the average Linux user, I suspect) is not >>> going to be scripting stuff any time soon (other than maybe by typing >>> in stuff they Googled). >>> >> >> I strongly feel like this kind of user should stay away from Linux and >> just use Windows. When those kind of users displace the original >> user-base of literate people they start making the system as a whole >> worse for the core community who built the thing in the first place. >> > > Errr .... this is what just happend in the last decade(s), peaking in systemd > and gnome3. >
users are not to blame. devs/sysadms wanted linux to prevail on desktop/compete with windoze, and those are the results/accomplishments so far. (= systemd, gafam leading opensource world, more m$ clones and wsl).. p.s. elitism doesn't really help, in either side...
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