Anne Wilson wrote:
Actually, there isn't anything that says we can't have that, however, someone is going to have to be willing to write such an install routine and then get a distro to incorporate it into their installation process.On Monday 20 Jan 2003 10:26 pm, walt wrote:On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:05, daRcmaTTeR wrote:But it is this "dumbing down" that will sell linux (and this is aOn Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Colin McElhatton wrote: The single BIGGEST problem for end user to this day remains being able to "find" the information that will get them going and *their* willingness to avail themselves of that information and learn it. simply dumbing down the interface and the core processes of the system will _never_ make a better, more usable system. It only makes one weaker and far less stable. I believe windows is perfect proof of this.
shame!!!)
Why? Why can't we have a default install that's as dumbed down as you like, will handle all your basic needs, and let you get on with your more urgent needs as though you were still in windows. Then you can learn more at your own speed. After all, you will have some free time now there's no longer all those 'need to reboot' messages to say nothing of crashes and re-installs.
Anne
The caveat I can see with that is this; the user is still going to have to know some things. I.e. ISP connection information, mailservice information etc... It would still require the end user to "know" something.
Thing is...If one is going to purchase a PC with Linux already on it the hard work is finished and the machine then, in many ways as far as the user is concerned, is no different then a windows machine in that the user must now get to know the machine and how to operate it. This is true for Windows and Linux. It's a new machine, the user is new to computers so the learning curve is a pretty much identical.
1) learn to navigate the menu system.
2) learn the basics about the filesystem as to where things are
kept and how to create/delete/change files and directories
On the other hand...I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a user who already has some experience using computers and can perform the most basic things as described above, to do some research, a little bit of reading if necessary, and think things through if they're going to take on the task of installing the operating system themselves. They would have to do the very same thing "IF" they were going to do this with a windows installation and they'd never done it before.
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