On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 05:54:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 17 iun 20, 10:55:55, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Making things user friendly (something we *gotta* do) means sometimes > > taking decisions for the user. Where's the limit? Where's too much > > (authoritarian software)? Where's too litle (RTFM software)? You'll > > be wrong most of the time for some users, and some of the time for > > most users. > > In my opinion Chrome OS (and I assume Chromium OS as well) gets many > things right, Debian could learn a lot from it. That's the point. In Sally's opinion it's Mac. In Betty's, it's Windows (but not after '95). In Sue's, OTOH... (BTW. for all I've seen of Chrome OS, I'd either run away screaming or scrub it from the computer, depending on my momentary mood). How to cater to all of those? And, more importantly: how to enable (or better: seduce) all of those to tinker away, if they wish to do so? After all, that last point is the "mission statement" of free software. There was a meme around one of the first free smartphones, the OpenMoko: "WARRANTY VOID WHEN NOT OPENED" [1] [2] I think in these days, where the attacks on freedom come sometimes in the guise of convenience rather than constraint (in some privileged parts of the world, at least!), this point becomes ever more important. Cheers [1] https://www.vanille.de/blog/openmoko-10-years-after-mickeys-story/ [2] http://fidzu.com/fidzu/openmoko -- tomás
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