Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 05, 2004 07:41 PM
Sorry - command line is NOT cool. It may have geek street cred but it's impossible to sell to the millions windows users who will have to be persuaded to migrate if Linux is going to be anything other than a niche market on the desktop. The vast majority of PC users are not technical. They just want a tool to help them work or play and a good tool is one that is natural and instinctive to use. We may bang on about stability and security but the average user is only interested in writing that memo, sending that e-mail and doesn't want to bother with 'all that technical stuff' We techies forget that what is obvious to us is arcane to most and an attitude that 'If the user can't work out how to use the software then that's their problem' is all to prevelant within the techie community. Don't let our arrogance stop the spread of (GNU/Linux) excellence.
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Re:Command Line are cool!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 05, 2004 07:41 PMThe vast majority of PC users are not technical. They just want a tool to help them work or play and a good tool is one that is natural and instinctive to use. We may bang on about stability and security but the average user is only interested in writing that memo, sending that e-mail and doesn't want to bother with 'all that technical stuff'
We techies forget that what is obvious to us is arcane to most and an attitude that 'If the user can't work out how to use the software then that's their problem' is all to prevelant within the techie community. Don't let our arrogance stop the spread of (GNU/Linux) excellence.
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