Please forgive me but I'm very confused about some of the points
you're
trying to me and just want to clarify exactly what you mean.
Brian Butterworth wrote:
<snip>
So, the biggest problem for most users with non-Windows systems is
that
it's not Windows.
Yup, I got all that and completely agree. Interestingly this isn't
a problem
if you teach the users from day one.
Windows, being "Borg" software has accumulated bits from every
other OS
and software package along the way.
For example, to close a Windows window, you can:
- press the "X" button in the top right
- press the invisible button at the top left and choose close
- press Alt F4
- right click on the taskband icon and choose "close window"
I can do all these, exactly how you have described, in ubuntu
To maximize:
- click the second-in button at the top right
- double click on the title bar
- right click the invible top left icon and choose maximuze
- press alt-space-X
- press Windows+Up
I can do all of these bar the last two, which I'm fairly sure were
introduced from Vista onwards.
Also, I appear to be able to do alt-F10
Another good example is the use of the menus. In Windows you can
use the
click-click-click method to select from menus, but you can also do
the MacOS
click-drag-drag-drag-release method
I'm can do the same thing here.
as well as F10+arrowkeys+enter and [Alt]+arrowkeys+enter
I can do Alt-F1, arrow, arrow, enter.
I think the biggest problem for most X-Windows based Linux systems
is that
they generally have just "native" support for these kind of actions.
Sorry this is what I'm confused about. What do you mean "just
'native'
support"? Perhaps you could explain what you mean here a bit better
as I
fail to understand how this leads on to your next point, sorry!
It is this kind of thing that has made Windows dominant and IMHO
the very
thing that prevents larger-scale Linux use.
Microsoft used to have things like "help for WordPerfect users" in
Word
and "help for 123 users" in Excel.
Linux distributions just don't have that KILLER instinct that
Microsoft
used to have.
I'm fairly sure there are various guides for windows users switching.
For instance I'm fairly sure the OO.o help has sections like that.
Oh, and Windows 7 is so good I would pay for it.
I would (and have) paid for Ubuntu & Debian GNU/Linux in the past.
Glad your happy though!
Cheers,
Tim
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