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Re: [opensuse] Re: General Poor quality of Opensuse
- From: Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:22:25 -0400
- Message-id: <9bb996600907140722qd21e3cbyb5ccd776bc36d169@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, that's not the problem. The problem is 2 things:
1. Compelling need - After thoroughly reviewing all these "features"
and "Benefits" of things like KDE4 and beagle, I have found little if
any reason to use them. Therefore, if they aren't going to offer me
anything I could use, then I see no reason to force myself to try to
find a reason to use them.
2. Adjusting to the change - I, as a home user, don't want to waste
my time trying to figure out how to make things work for me
considering the lack of benefits. But, in a business enviroment, this
is the big one. This is the inertia that keeps people using
Win/Office because that's what they are used to OR that's what their
company purchases.
I don't have text messaging on my cell phone(unlimited minutes, no
home phone since 1997), don't use Twitter or anything like that, don't
work in a collaborative enviroment, so I have to agree about the
over-hype. Like I said, it's an answer looking for a problem.
I don't mind the fact that people like bling. Just give me an easy
way to turn it off. My computer is a tool. I spend a lot of time in
text modes. Granted I'm not a normal computer user, but that's what I
need to be productive.
The devs seems to have forgotten about that when they decided to
target new users.
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Williams<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is the rub for these tools; they can only help a user *IF* the
user chooses to use them. If the user insists on just working the way
she/he always has... then these tools seem like an annoying
interference.
Actually, that's not the problem. The problem is 2 things:
1. Compelling need - After thoroughly reviewing all these "features"
and "Benefits" of things like KDE4 and beagle, I have found little if
any reason to use them. Therefore, if they aren't going to offer me
anything I could use, then I see no reason to force myself to try to
find a reason to use them.
2. Adjusting to the change - I, as a home user, don't want to waste
my time trying to figure out how to make things work for me
considering the lack of benefits. But, in a business enviroment, this
is the big one. This is the inertia that keeps people using
Win/Office because that's what they are used to OR that's what their
company purchases.
On the other hand I do think that the 'Semantic web/desktop' is
over-hyped [in GNOME, KDE, and the Web] by the hard-core evangelists.
Some of it seems to assume users spend all thier time in IM chats with
their friends and listening to MP3 playlists. But if you're a 'real'
user with large documents and heaps of e-mail and spreadsheets then
search tools can make many tasks more efficient, provided you learn to
use them.
I don't have text messaging on my cell phone(unlimited minutes, no
home phone since 1997), don't use Twitter or anything like that, don't
work in a collaborative enviroment, so I have to agree about the
over-hype. Like I said, it's an answer looking for a problem.
I don't mind the fact that people like bling. Just give me an easy
way to turn it off. My computer is a tool. I spend a lot of time in
text modes. Granted I'm not a normal computer user, but that's what I
need to be productive.
The devs seems to have forgotten about that when they decided to
target new users.
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