On Monday 03 October 2005 00:28, Ed Baker wrote: > P.S. > Some people in the Linux/Unix camp tend to look down on MS-Windows users. I > used to be in that camp myself. I've been an active unix user since 1979 > and I owned a copy of Slackware linux when it was distributed on 19 three > and one half inch floppies. I'm not a rooky when it comes to working in > Unix. However, I refuse to run Flightgear on a unix box. I'll concede that > Unix/Linux is great ... no doubt about it ... but, as they say two hundred > and twenty five million Beatles fans can't be all wrong. If Flightgear > plans to draw a large audience (and I think it is worthy of it), the > Flightgear community HAS TO REALIZE that they MUST appeal to the MS-Windows > community. That's just the facts ... it's not an opinion, it's not an "us > versus them" scenario. It's just what it is. There's no denying it.
225 million?! It certainly proves that there are an awful lot of people with a poor sense of music. :P However just because there are a lot of Windows users doesn't prove that it's a better OS - it only proves that it's easy enough for the average person to use including grannies and that is why it's so popular. Maybe you can make some suggestions as to how we can better appeal to Windows users? I'm quite happy with the current situation - everything works just fine if you use two braincells and read the documentation. If you skip over the documentation you're bound to be frustrated. Oh yeah ... I forgot. Most Windows users seem to hate having to read anything to be able to use an application and it seems as if a lot of them are clueless about how command line driven apps work. Most of them don't even bother reading EULA's when installing software so even if we present them with info they are likely to just skip past it anyway. Of course I'm not implying that all Windows users are stupid but it does seem to have more than its fair share of them. I'm sure this has something to do with how easy it is to run a Windows OS and applications. (Point and click culture) Integration : I think the average FG developer isn't too interested in trying to cram everything into one menu driven app. It would be a lot of work and leads to one bloated, behemoth of an application. Applications like fgrun are probably the best way to get things "integrated". However if you don't approve of the current setup you're welcome to give us some ideas and maybe even submit some code. :) Regards Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
