Comment User Friendliness and Standardization (Score 1) 1243
if it was expensive then price would be a valid argument.
Ive used linux quite a few times.
sure i'm picking up how the command line works. i can do all kinds of stuff with it. but even the command line lacks standardization. i usually get fed up for the rest of the week when i have to deal with the command line. an example of lack of standardization is the solutions you read about on forums. when i just look at the solutions, it only strengthens my view of linux lacking structure.
to me it looks like one big unstandardized mess. i have to dive in to one manual after the other for almost every program i really need. this is very wasteful of my time! sure you can argue that windows is installed on every pc and that people don't know better than windows...
but those are just circumstances. Linux has Office suites. maybe there is incompatibility with microsoft's suites. but they weren't made for microsoft things so i don't think its valid to complain about the Office suite in linux from that angle.
what i want to see is not the development of more little little tools but the development of more standardization (standardizing tools?). everyone keeps bringing out their distributions with little or no improvement ( some Not Invented Here Syndrome is taking place here with epic proportions ).
problem solving in windows is also no cakewalk. the registry is frikin mess. NO I DON"T USE MAC (dual boot linux and win).
with standardization the user could still be left at the command line. USER FRIENDLINESS is the big issue. i can't even visualize how the inside works even though linux is suppose to be so open about everything. i don't think solving problems is so bad. but if it's done in a weird environment then things get hopeless. if the user could visualize what exactly is wrong, she will be more determined to solve the problem, knowing more or less what is wrong. window's is also not scoring very high in this area. maybe its just some tools that are missing to preform these kinds of jobs (NOT A WHOLE DISTRO). see it's the mindset of the user/developers thats the problem. and then there is the jokes like "if you use anything more sophisticated than VI then thats a signs of a weak mind" sure thats funny and i can laugh at that, but at the end of the day IT AIN'T FUNNY!
in the near future i will also be a developer and i am having doubts about developing for linux. i really don't care for things like already existing software for bad systems. i say if the system is bad, get rid of it or fix. and maybe thats partly why we are in this mess. i'm not really satisfied with very much right now. linux seems to have all the little building blocks for greater functionality but i don't think it should stay like that at all... i'm not childishly gonna pick sides. there are problems period, and no one is fixing jack.
it's way too easy to blame the nobility linux
Ive used linux quite a few times.
sure i'm picking up how the command line works. i can do all kinds of stuff with it. but even the command line lacks standardization. i usually get fed up for the rest of the week when i have to deal with the command line. an example of lack of standardization is the solutions you read about on forums. when i just look at the solutions, it only strengthens my view of linux lacking structure.
to me it looks like one big unstandardized mess. i have to dive in to one manual after the other for almost every program i really need. this is very wasteful of my time! sure you can argue that windows is installed on every pc and that people don't know better than windows...
but those are just circumstances. Linux has Office suites. maybe there is incompatibility with microsoft's suites. but they weren't made for microsoft things so i don't think its valid to complain about the Office suite in linux from that angle.
what i want to see is not the development of more little little tools but the development of more standardization (standardizing tools?). everyone keeps bringing out their distributions with little or no improvement ( some Not Invented Here Syndrome is taking place here with epic proportions ).
problem solving in windows is also no cakewalk. the registry is frikin mess. NO I DON"T USE MAC (dual boot linux and win).
with standardization the user could still be left at the command line. USER FRIENDLINESS is the big issue. i can't even visualize how the inside works even though linux is suppose to be so open about everything. i don't think solving problems is so bad. but if it's done in a weird environment then things get hopeless. if the user could visualize what exactly is wrong, she will be more determined to solve the problem, knowing more or less what is wrong. window's is also not scoring very high in this area. maybe its just some tools that are missing to preform these kinds of jobs (NOT A WHOLE DISTRO). see it's the mindset of the user/developers thats the problem. and then there is the jokes like "if you use anything more sophisticated than VI then thats a signs of a weak mind" sure thats funny and i can laugh at that, but at the end of the day IT AIN'T FUNNY!
in the near future i will also be a developer and i am having doubts about developing for linux. i really don't care for things like already existing software for bad systems. i say if the system is bad, get rid of it or fix. and maybe thats partly why we are in this mess. i'm not really satisfied with very much right now. linux seems to have all the little building blocks for greater functionality but i don't think it should stay like that at all... i'm not childishly gonna pick sides. there are problems period, and no one is fixing jack.
it's way too easy to blame the nobility linux
