On Sunday 16 February 2003 1:23 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
As I sit here having my morning coffee I'm reading this thread and glancing over at IRC. I see this " Linux isn't ready..blah..blah" and when I checked what was happening in the IRC channel that quite a few of my friends hangout in..I see this...
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[10:41]
taking a new computer out for a spin to see how i like it [10:41]
kinda nice [10:41]
w0rd [10:42]
it's weird, this thing makes less noise with two fans than my old machine did with one [10:43]
the only gripe i have with this one is having to deal with win2k [10:43]
errr, not win2k [10:43]
win xp [10:43]
i actually kinda like win2k... well, as much as I can like any windows os [10:43]
but [10:44]
i can't figure my fucking way around XP to save my life [10:44]
all this stupid hand-holding [10:44]
i don't NEED a wizard for every bloody thing ---snip--- So I would take the above to mean that not even Windows works as every end user would like. The guy who is speak in the snippet above is not a computer geek by ANY stretch of the imagination but can get around ok when using one. It seems to me that computers are not VCR's and shouldn't be treated as such. If one is going to use a system such as Windows, Linux or even OSX. Then one has to expect some kind of learning curve to occur. The gentleman in the IRC snippet is pretty well verse in Win2k because he's been using it for a couple years, but XP makes him nuts...is there a big difference between XP and 2k? If there is and one is willing to learn the in's and out's of XP..then why on earth are people so adversed to learning how Linux works? It's no more difficult it's just different and doesn't automatically do somethings. I believe it's fear..fear of the unknown and big ole case of getting completely adgitated over nothing to the point that one can't think.
I like Yoda's line to Luke in Empire Strikes Back. It discribes most of this quite well when switching from one system to another.
" You must unlearn what you have learned. "
This is partly true..people must not thing that everything behaves exactly the same...or frustration will set in. People bitch about this when it comes to XP when coming from 2k, but they still stick with it.
/end babble.
-- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
As a dedicated and often clueless end-user all I can say is "HERE HERE"! Very on spot. Curtis :)