On 03/01/17 13:51, Anton Aylward wrote:
Most computer users today no more read the operating and technical manuals than car drivers read the operating manuals and technical manuals of their cars. And the car designers are savvy enough to realise this and design the cars to accommodate such.
Our problem isn't that the software designers are geeks. Techies are like that in all industries. its that they are in command. Part of the success of Apple is that Human factor designers got an upper hands, they worked to design a computer that didn't need manuals - something they boasted of. That was the difference between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Actually, it's NOT the geeks who are in command. It's the marketeers. And the geeks are trying to compensate for idiocies like megahurtz, buffer bloat, desktop grade hard drives, etc etc. Who remembers the megahurtz wars when your Intel processor was hot enough to heat your study, while the AMD chip, although slower, actually got more work done? How many of you still suffer your internet connection collapsing as soon as two people try to stream a video over your connection? I know my connection regularly achieves 0Mb over an allegedly "normally achieves 17Mb" copper wire. And I know from watching the linux raid mailing list that the biggest pain in the arse there is there is desktop drives. Let me suggest you a simple scenario, which is probably typical for your enthusiast who knows enough to be dangerous ... Let's say I set up a fancy high powered system, five drives, 4-drive raid-6 with a hot spare. How many disks does it take to fail, to knock out that array, if they're all desktop grade? ONE! Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org