Earlier this year I downloaded the latest release of Ubuntu and installed it on
an old laptop. I wanted to change the time/date display. Does it have a dialog
box where one can simply... change the time and date format? Nooooo. You have
to search online or ask on a forum for the 'secret code' of percent signs,
letters etc to enter into a field, which the OS will interpret to display the
date and time in the normal American style, and with 12 hour AM/PM.
Same rigamarole with several other settings that for almost 30 years on
Windows and Macintosh have been a simple and easy point and click. Linux wants
to make headway against Win and Mac? Then get with the whole user friendliness
thing. The basic, simple things like changing the time, changing the display
resolution and bit depth, changing mouse settings etc should NOT require guru
level knowledge or an online scavenger hunt or petitioning the forum gurus for
the information on how to do them.
Someone needs to take the source code to one of the Linux GUIs and go through
it piece by piece with the thought in mind "Is a command line *really necessary
to do this*?" "Why are we still making users find a text field to enter %a %r
%b %d or %a %I:%M:%S %p %b %d to display Tue 03:36:05 AM Dec 08 instead of
making a simple dialog box with option checkboxes?" Find every last piece of
Linux that's 10, 20, 30 years behind and bring it up to date.
On Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 11:59:33 AM MDT, John Dammeyer
<jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
If you can
> think it, you can pretty much do it with LinuxCNC.
>
> Jon
>
Hi Jon,
I don't disagree. The same can be said of Linux (and is by Linux
proponents).
Here's the thing though. To set up my motors I had to edit a text file. Oh
wait, that's standard Linux practice for everything. Edit command lines.
Edit text files. All sorts of text files in all sorts of locations. Often
the sample distribution text files have comments that have no relationship
to the information in the text files.
Now flip to the Windows/MAC world and you get dialogs with all the fields
where you can hover and get hints or click and get help files.
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