Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 03, 2005 02:10 AM
Here's an example:
"However, considering that Mandriva attempts to organize users by adding subdirectories such as Documents, Download, and Pictures to each home directory, I am uncertain about what advantages Kat itself offers over well-organized directories and a file manager in everyday computing."
Get serious. I have scores of thousands of files in hundreds of directories under my "Documents" directory (on my Windows XP side of the machine) - does this guy really think that having a well-organized directory structure is enough? What if one directory contains a thousand files? Do you really want to subdivide every single directory down to the point where you only have a twenty or less files in it?
If you're an average user with less than a hundred files sitting on your desktop, yes, you don't need Kat. Everybody else needs a search tool, even if it's nothing more than that stupid Windows dog.
He complains tirelessly about how Mandriva provides only a certain level of support for users who may want to become Unix system administrators. This is not what Mandriva is for. That's HIS concept of what Linux is about, not the average user's concept. The average user just wants it to work - and, yes, when it doesn't - JUST LIKE WINDOWS - he'll be up the creek.
Yes, Mandriva, like every other piece of software in existence, has significant limitations and fails to go the extra mile in some respects. Duh!
A reviewer should tell us what it does, and what it doesn't do. His interpretation of this is really irrelevant. I don't watch TV movie critics for their criticism of the movie - I watch to find out what the movie is ABOUT. I will decide whether I want to watch the movie or not.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 03, 2005 02:10 AM"However, considering that Mandriva attempts to organize users by adding subdirectories such as Documents, Download, and Pictures to each home directory, I am uncertain about what advantages Kat itself offers over well-organized directories and a file manager in everyday computing."
Get serious. I have scores of thousands of files in hundreds of directories under my "Documents" directory (on my Windows XP side of the machine) - does this guy really think that having a well-organized directory structure is enough? What if one directory contains a thousand files? Do you really want to subdivide every single directory down to the point where you only have a twenty or less files in it?
If you're an average user with less than a hundred files sitting on your desktop, yes, you don't need Kat. Everybody else needs a search tool, even if it's nothing more than that stupid Windows dog.
He complains tirelessly about how Mandriva provides only a certain level of support for users who may want to become Unix system administrators. This is not what Mandriva is for. That's HIS concept of what Linux is about, not the average user's concept. The average user just wants it to work - and, yes, when it doesn't - JUST LIKE WINDOWS - he'll be up the creek.
Yes, Mandriva, like every other piece of software in existence, has significant limitations and fails to go the extra mile in some respects. Duh!
A reviewer should tell us what it does, and what it doesn't do. His interpretation of this is really irrelevant. I don't watch TV movie critics for their criticism of the movie - I watch to find out what the movie is ABOUT. I will decide whether I want to watch the movie or not.
Next time, don't lecture - review.
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