2012/3/7 Greg Bernard <[email protected]>: > I have to say that as a newbie 2 years ago I did a trial of both Mach and > LinuxCNC. Even with practically no knowledge of Linux I found LinuxCNC to be > no more difficult to set up using the LiveCD than Mach was.
Could not say more precise about myself. A little OT - in marketing class about some household appliances the professor told that manuals are looked at only when something is not working. No offence to anyone, but LinuxCNC manuals perfectly explain, how to get started with this application, so I have a feeling that those who complain that LinuxCNC is not userfriendly, had not done the homework and had not tried to learn anything about the program (at least from manuals) and understand it. I guess that after opening LinuxCNC and seeing Axis GUI for the very first time all those buttons and menu entries are not as obvious and self-describing as one may want them to be, but I do not think that it is possible. And that is why there are manuals, where all those things are explained. For newbies Stepconfwizard and Pncconf are actually wonderful tools to ease the creation of configs, because understanding HAL is not an easy task, but I find it obvious that any new LinuxCNC user is expected to do some basic learning about the application, before using it, not just installing, opening it, seeing the GUI and things in it in a different manner than particular user has expected and then complaining that it is not user-friendly. There is a saying: "One can write a software that even idiots can use, and then only idiots will want to use it." Of course, the application is not perfect, there might be things to improve, and that is why user can post an argumented opinion here in mailing list or fill a bug report or probably do something else to attract developers' attention to particular problem (actually I do not really know the recommended procedure for that, because the post-questions-in-mailing-list approach has helped me along these 2 years I am familiar with LinuxCNC). Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
