Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, hekate@intergate.bc.ca produced:
PROBABLY- not ever. The world is big enough for Linux, M$, Macintoys and whatever. [...]
Yes. And there are a lot of people which I rather prefer not to use Linux (but 95/98/NT or Macs or whatever instead). Linux is strong enough not to have to take everyone[1]. People who have no clue, don't want them *and* won't *pay* for a sysadmin are a pain and give Linux bad names. Let them swear at (or be happy with) other OSses ... no need to cry if they won't use Linux. [1] As the saying goes: Unix _is_ user friendly, but it is rather selective about it's friends.
ever. Not everyone can use a Unix and that's what Linux is. It may become more user friendly with enough gui toys for newbies till it looks like a damn nintendo, but underneath all that you still HAVE TO HAVE A CLUE, and there are too many people that DON'T when it comes to computers. Linux,
And that is my largest gripe with YaST. YaST won't tell you what it does ... so there is less chance you'll ever learn to do it manually (or tune stuff). It's all dandy if you don't want to learn (or doing it the first time), but sometimes I want to know how YaST sets the time zone[2] ... or whatever. I wish there was at least a --noisy switch that would write all the stuff to STDOUT or a file ... [2] read: How YaST does it and how you'd do it manually.
unlike Windows and the Macintoy, will never have 'full clueless support' which is what you need to feed the 'masses'. This is the REAL reason why it's so 'hard to use'. It's simply because you HAVE TO HAVE A CLUE. That's the reason.
Heck, our University uses both Win and Unix (many of them: AIX, Solaris, IRIX, ... ). And don't think academic staff (and students) are computer-clue loaded. ("How do I rename files: was that copy or move?"[3]) You *can* do handholding support, but it's not cheap. Maybe cheaper than for 95-NT if you have a large userbase, though. [3] Actual, real life question to me (and no, I don't get paid nor do I have the root pw), just yesterday. It's even covered in the short introduction (where 'man' is also covered!).
Flame away.
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