At 10:33 PM 8/24/2004 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:27 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
This is something they pick up over time, no first-time user will know it all.
And the point I was trying to make is that the process is exactly identical in linux
No, its not identical.
You are asking them to go thru the entire learning curve again. Thats silly. Human civilation doesn't progress that way. We build on our past knowledge and allow for the differences in the situation.
When the typical user first learned about Excel, (or yes, even winipcfg) they also learned a concept that they never heard of before.
They don't need to re-learn the concept of a spread sheet.
When coming to Linux, they know that there exists an analog of these things. They are positive it exists. They just don't know the name.
They don't need to re-learn spread sheets, they just want to know the name of the (any) linux spread sheet. They already know exactly what they need, and they can figure out how to use it even if it differs somewhat from the windows program they used before. But before they can do that they need to know the name so they can fire it up.
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen
I suspect that a lot of this problem, for those who may have it, would go away if they would go to Google>Linux and search for spreadsheet, or graphics, or mathematics, or whatever. Maybe not all, but most. --doug