Comment Re:/. groupthink (Score 1) 528
Word. I couldn't have said it better. People and unfortunately not just /.'ers seem to think that there is configuration hell and uneven UI design in Windows and Mac... well sorry to break it to you all but there truly is not.
When is the last time anyone had to manually edit sys.ini, config.sys, or autoexec.bat??? Yeah thought so, all fo the configuration that the average user needs to do can be done in one single location called "Control Panel" without ever using a text editor at all... this is centralized ease of use.
And for UI woes, anyone who can't see this is either blind or in denial. You may not notice them as problems because you are used to 40 different UI's in 40 different apps, but to the new user this is more confusing than anything else Linux can throw at them. Don't believe me? Try it, grab an unsuspecting windows or Mac newbie and ask them to do normal tasks on your 1337 Linux box... see what trips them up the most, yep that's what I thought.
When is the last time anyone had to manually edit sys.ini, config.sys, or autoexec.bat??? Yeah thought so, all fo the configuration that the average user needs to do can be done in one single location called "Control Panel" without ever using a text editor at all... this is centralized ease of use.
And for UI woes, anyone who can't see this is either blind or in denial. You may not notice them as problems because you are used to 40 different UI's in 40 different apps, but to the new user this is more confusing than anything else Linux can throw at them. Don't believe me? Try it, grab an unsuspecting windows or Mac newbie and ask them to do normal tasks on your 1337 Linux box... see what trips them up the most, yep that's what I thought.
