Comment Re:A Long Way To Go (Score 1) 778
> but for Joe Blow who wants to check his email, browse the web, an do a little word processing, it is not a very interesting offering.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there, buddy: for Joe Blow it can be extremely easy. It's the people who know enough to get into trouble for whom Linux can start to be daunting, because they know what they want to happen and it is difficult or impossible to make the computer do it.
The most advanced users seem to pass through stages, where operating the computer is easy at first, then difficult and frustrating, and then syntactically obscure, conceptually simple, and very satisfying.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there, buddy: for Joe Blow it can be extremely easy. It's the people who know enough to get into trouble for whom Linux can start to be daunting, because they know what they want to happen and it is difficult or impossible to make the computer do it.
The most advanced users seem to pass through stages, where operating the computer is easy at first, then difficult and frustrating, and then syntactically obscure, conceptually simple, and very satisfying.
