[gameprogrammer] Re: OTP: deleting porn

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:51:42 -0300, "Adilson Oliveira"
<adilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> > That it is harder to use is not a small part of it either.  Even when I 
> > know what I'm doing I work much much faster in Windows because the GUI 
> > is more functional.
> 
> I don't want to start a flamewar, specialy an offtopic one but:
> 1) Linux does not have a GUI. It has a lot of different ones. You can 
> pick up which one suits you best.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the overwhelming majority of consumers
don't want to have to install and uninstall 5 different GUIs before they
find the one they really like.  Give them something which just _works_
out of the box, and they'll be happy.

> 2) I don't think windows GUI is functional. You're probably more used to 
> it. That's all.

This is a not insignificant point.  When you're used to something,
you'll be able to use it well.  I'm used to both Windows and Linux, so I
can be productive on either - which is required for what I do.

> In my line of work, sometimes I have to test my software against windows 
> servers and *I* have a very hard time trying to find where the things 
> are and I keep cursing all the time having a lot more trouble doing 
> operations which I can perform much easier on linux, specialy on the 
> command line.

Well, given that you need to do things on Windows for work, I guess you
need more practice in order to be properly productive...

> Want an example: you have a directory with lots of files 
> and you have to move or erase about 100 .txt's on it. What do you do?

In Linux - type 'rm *.txt'.  In Windows - sort by type, select the first
and last text file, hit shift-delete.  Neither are especially tricky.

When Linux is _clearly_ better and easier to use than Windows, then it
_might_ have a chance at getting over the resistance to change.  I don't
think that's yet, much as I might like it to be.

Dave.
-- 
  Dave Slutzkin
  Melbourne, Australia
  daveslutzkin@xxxxxxxxxxx



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