Comment This ARTICLE is to big... (Score 1) 365
It says nothing except one thing, & It says it over and over and over. "Linux is too much for most people to handle" or "Linux is too bountiful for most computer users" sounds like the same point to me :).
However, its right. Linux IS too much for most computer users. Most computer users are barely adept at using a computer. Sooo the more common OS's *need* to be simple for the simple user.
We know this already.
like most media this article is written by a complainer for complainers. I can imagine the article if the opposite of his complaints were true. "LINUX TOO SIMPLE FOR USERS".
Linux is as small and simple as the user allows it to be. More so now than ever IMHO with the recent Helix-Gnome and Nautilus apps.
The problem isnt with the distrobutions. The problem (if its even a problem) is this; Windows (& MacOS 9-) is as good as the programmers (& Marketting cause they have a little TOO much say in what what sometimes) that made it. *nix is as good as the user. It just so happens that in order to use *nix to its best it *help* to be a programmer, or at least be savvy with scripting.
linux is what the person taking care of it wants it to be.
Nuff' said
However, its right. Linux IS too much for most computer users. Most computer users are barely adept at using a computer. Sooo the more common OS's *need* to be simple for the simple user.
We know this already.
like most media this article is written by a complainer for complainers. I can imagine the article if the opposite of his complaints were true. "LINUX TOO SIMPLE FOR USERS".
Linux is as small and simple as the user allows it to be. More so now than ever IMHO with the recent Helix-Gnome and Nautilus apps.
The problem isnt with the distrobutions. The problem (if its even a problem) is this; Windows (& MacOS 9-) is as good as the programmers (& Marketting cause they have a little TOO much say in what what sometimes) that made it. *nix is as good as the user. It just so happens that in order to use *nix to its best it *help* to be a programmer, or at least be savvy with scripting.
linux is what the person taking care of it wants it to be.
Nuff' said
