On 18/06/06 21:40 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Sunday 18 June 2006 10:28, Rony wrote: > > I don't see any difference in user simplicity in Windows or Linux. > > Its all about getting famaliar with a system. If a child were to see > > only linux pcs around it, it would find them as simple as a child who > > grows up on windows. > > This argument isn't true at all. What if the child wants to change the > file associations? What if the child wants to draw a simple drawing?
Why would you want to change file associations? > ( Paint brush kicks Kpaints a$$ ). What if the child wants to install a > flash plugin? Firefox has issues installing plugins on my FC5 system. And why would you want a _user_ installing anything? Please do not conflate administrative issues with use issues. > The fact is and will remain that Linux Desktop OE have a long way yet > to catch up with XPs UI. Until the outlook of the Linux community > changes and accepts the short comings of the UIs GNOME and KDE both, we > wont see real progress. > Patch(es)? Oh, and not all of us use bloatware. For one thing, I dislike the XP UI (and Mac OS X is cumbersome to use). You keep forgetting that all these are learned things. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
