On Saturday 20 May 2006 05:00 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Friday 19 May 2006 11:25, jtd wrote:
Ruuubbissssh. Read my earlier post on kids and comps.
Heh. If what we're talking is so rubbish then why isn't every computer running KDE? Why are so many people dependent on the XP UI? Why do people rate XP's UI better than KDE / GNOME ? And why does KDE keep adding XMMS in nonsensical places in the menus? :/
There are a whole lot of reasons which have absolutely nothing to do with usability, ergonomics, eyecandy etc. it's more about illegal monopoly, money power yak yak. Siddesh mail abt 3 classes of users is a better clasification of desktop users. Within these groups there are further subdivisions. Software companies have already invested massive resources in entangling themselves in the M$edusa. Most will stay there slowly asphyxiating to death. A few will build apps on the GNU/Linux platform. And that is inded happening very rapidly. From the days when we had to struggle to get i810 boards running to a time when there is no M$ software which is 64bit ready.
Umm...jtd, no offense but the first step to improve is to accept ones shortcomings.
You are falling for the this-is-a-feature-not-bug syndrome, and presuming that since many are familiar with a particular mode of operation everything else should do so. I have extreme difficulty in doing anything at all on the XP crap, not to mention the fly by spyware feature. Why is M$ not switching itself to the provenly better development methodology or adopting the ODF format or ..... They cant
The Linux desktop offerings arent going to get any better if we try to mould people into doing the things our way rather we should adopt the software to do things their way and then slowly transition them :/
You are trying to play M$ game with their warped up rules. And like N numbers of companies before u are doomed. Just forget about M$ software and do your thing. Fight them on standards, performance, stability. These are the areas where thay have absolutely no legs to standon let alone run with.
In the end it doesnt matter if Linux can do everything including walking your dog, if users aren't attracted and feel at home with our desktop offerings then its senseless to add features _we_ feel are useful. If you're going to shove unwanted features down a users throat then he will just format his disk and move over to something else. Give him what _he_ wants!
Let him do so. Inspite of what you say switching over is happening at an extraordinary pace and will conitnue exponentially.
Microsoft isn't all that evil.
Bom Jesus! perish the thought. Archangels will bow to the holiest of holies HM Billbaba and 40040 chors. Those pissy EU judges simply cannot see billybaba's reality and are being misled by a bunch o commie anticapitalistas.
The Linux community can learn some things from Microsoft....well....atleast the Microsoft of the 1990s.
Like how to kill friends and influenza people. Or perhaps how to rob joeand pay him pennies if he hits the courts. Or how to magically create software with Gary Kidall's code. Come on DJ u know better.
P.S.: I read your earlier post on kids and comps. Well, catch 'em young is what even M$ is doing currently.
U are right. But that was not the point. The point was that the alleged weakness of linux ui v/s M$ ui is a pre bias caused by exposure to M$. Both i/f are equally intutive to an unbiased user. Even to computer illeterate kids BSOD in the middle of a game is no no (madhech bandh padto).
But the vast majority need to _transition_ from the Win platform to the Linux platform!
Many will after suffering at the hands of the beast. One developer group whom I had lectured to agreed with my rant but did not transistion. That was a year ago. Yesterday i happened to meet the project leader. After struggling for a year with win2003 server, MS SQL and IIS they are switching over to GNU/Linux - one month after having lost the contract to me. Plenty of cries of pain from them as they switch over and I dont know if they will stay the course. If they dont they WILL bite the dust.