On 18/06/06 21:40 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:28, Rony wrote:
I don't see any difference in user simplicity in Windows or Linux. Its all about getting famaliar with a system. If a child were to see only linux pcs around it, it would find them as simple as a child who grows up on windows.
This argument isn't true at all. What if the child wants to change the file associations? What if the child wants to draw a simple drawing?
Why would you want to change file associations?
( Paint brush kicks Kpaints a$$ ). What if the child wants to install a flash plugin? Firefox has issues installing plugins on my FC5 system.
And why would you want a _user_ installing anything? Please do not conflate administrative issues with use issues.
The fact is and will remain that Linux Desktop OE have a long way yet to catch up with XPs UI. Until the outlook of the Linux community changes and accepts the short comings of the UIs GNOME and KDE both, we wont see real progress.
Patch(es)?
Oh, and not all of us use bloatware. For one thing, I dislike the XP UI (and Mac OS X is cumbersome to use). You keep forgetting that all these are learned things.
Devdas Bhagat