On 01/01/17 18:13, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:23:48 +0100 Richard Brown
wrote: In the real world I expect users to spend some time to understand the tools they have chosen to use and to use them appropriately
I'm sorry but that is completely unrealistic, IMHO. I see two situations:
I see a third. The wife who abdicates responsibility for filling the car up to her husband, and then wonders why she gets stranded on a long journey because the car's run out of petrol (and she doesn't have a clue where the filler cap is). It is only reasonable to expect users to have SOME understanding of the technology they are using, not least because ignoramuses have a habit of breaking things they don't understand. Don't forget - every time the engineers invent a better foolproof gadget, nature invents a better fool. To expect users to use technology without understanding, is to expect engineers to fix things that should never have got broken. (And I curse blue bloody murder at home when all my stuff gets broken because the family "expect it to work" and have no desire to know how to make it work properly. A computer is a lot more complicated than most home appliances ...) Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org