Re: Where is Debian going?
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:49:28PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> I was speaking relatively. I am aware that linux is intuitive to most
> people here. It is intuitive for me now. However, for someone who has
> never seen Linux / X / KDE / GNOME before, it is all still new (an
> improved hopefully)
I was also speaking relatively. Unless society as a whole is far more
clueless than I would have thought (even after working tech support), I
don't think people are going to have a problem learning that they can't
depend on the mouse to get them by in life.
Learning a new iterface isn't terribly difficult. Microsoft best
demonstrated this fact. Win3.1 works drastically different from Win95,
which works diffirently from 98, which works differently from XP. Even
Windows users demonstrate thier ability to learn a new interface every
time they upgrade on the Microsoft path.
The interface being new and foriegn is not an obsticle. Getting the new
user stoked about being there is.
> What I am saying is that, when there are package dependency issues or
> such, testing is good enough for desktop use. Sure its buggier *but* it
> is not that much more buggier that windoze *and* it is almost as easy to
> figure out (generaly speaking).
Using Windows as an example of acceptable reliability and performance is
a slipperly slope as each new version of Windows adds an extra layer of
cruft. This attitude, again and again, has proven itself harmful. If
you want a distro with all the mismatch of standards, cruft and
bugginess of Windows, go pick out one of the RPM based distros.
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Baloo
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