Jack Zukt wrote, in part: >The real problem, as I see it, is that drag and drop interfaces move you >away from the need to know what you are doing.
That’s the *goal*. Do you know what the Windows installer is doing? Android? iOS? No you do not, beyond the high-level “putting **** in places” and “making it bootable”. While it makes me nervous because, like you, I’ve been doing this for too long, most people see this as a good thing, and I can’t really dispute it. In 1920, if you had a car, you understood air/fuel mixture, how to do oil and tire changes, etc. Most people don’t now, and that’s not a bad thing. Sure, occasionally they get stranded, but by and large, it Just Works. On the flip side, I was switching phones and the migration failed. I did a reset of the new phone and restarted it, and it worked the second time. Did I understand the process? No. Did I need to? No. Am I happy that I couldn’t tell what failed? Not really, but, again, I really didn’t need to. And 99.44% of people wouldn’t care, as long as it worked the second try. and Colin Paice asked: >Would it help if we moved to standard configurations? That’s the point I made before: with Windows, you’re forced into a fairly standard configuration. With z/OS, it’s a bit late (by almost six decades): sites aren’t going to rearrange everything. For new installs (all handful of them), sure. But that doesn’t really help at this point, alas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
