From: james@...
Date: 2002-06-21T16:18:07+09:00
Subject: RE: Why is I/O slow?

> Ian Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > Windows is beginner-friendly, whereas more powerful systems are
> > user-friendly. Since people are experienced users for longer than they
> > are beginning users, ...
>
> Not most people I know! My observation is that very few people learn
> even to take advantage of the power offered by a Windows machine (e.g.
> batch files, Word macros, right-clicking, the command line) much less
> the power offered by Linux.

This matches my observations as well; I could never imagine convincing my
sister that any Unix was, in the longer run, better for her than Windows.
She just has no interest in doing anything that is even remotely geekish.
She does not want to try and install some application only to find out she
has the wrong version of glibc, or needs libpng.so.2.

Windows and *nix are meant for different audiences.  Saying Widows should
be more like Unix is like saying Ruby should be more like assembly
language.

"But you get all this power and control ..."

:)

James



>
>  Paul Prescod
>