Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 08, 2004 08:46 AM
Users by a television with some vague idea what it does and what the options mean. Very few people buy a televison because they want 85dB gain on something or a 31db signal to noise ratio measured somewhere.
They buy it because its "Got more features than their friends has" (Gentoo 8)) 'The same as their friends have' 'Cheap' 'Small' 'Got a good review' 'Reliable' 'Suitable for industrial use'
and so on.
If you want to get more simplicity in Linux choices then these are then kind of questions the user must have answered not "Does emacs include the foobar extender", not even is it Gnome or KDE.
Choice is only choice if the user understands something about the choice they are making. Anything else isn't merely useless (guessing) but actually -bad- because it embarrasses the poor user who doesn't understand the funny man at the counter and feels inadequate.
Enterprise Linux Home Office Linux Personal Linux Lightweight Linux
might make sense IFF vendors can agree WTF these phrases should mean.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 08, 2004 08:46 AMThey buy it because its
"Got more features than their friends has" (Gentoo 8))
'The same as their friends have'
'Cheap'
'Small'
'Got a good review'
'Reliable'
'Suitable for industrial use'
and so on.
If you want to get more simplicity in Linux choices then these are then kind of questions the user must have answered not "Does emacs include the foobar extender", not even is it Gnome or KDE.
Choice is only choice if the user understands something about the choice they are making. Anything else isn't merely useless (guessing) but actually -bad- because it embarrasses the poor user who doesn't understand the funny man at the counter and feels inadequate.
Enterprise Linux
Home Office Linux
Personal Linux
Lightweight Linux
might make sense IFF vendors can agree WTF these phrases should mean.
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