[BadVista Advocate] Microsoft Says "Vista has less bugs than XP"

[Don Hensley]

Actually I doubt editing xorg.conf would turn many people away, given that if 
you aren't into geek land fairly deep you wouldn't know about xorg.conf --or 
you editing experiment would be very short --unless you had enough console 
know how to at least get to MC or the equivalent, and then how to get back to 
xorg.conf to fix what you did wrong...

But I take your point as you meant it, the geekness of using a computer should 
be minimal.

On the other hand, if we want to drive a car it requires SOME learning... 
ditto computers.

It is actually an impossibility to make a totally intuitive OS (at today's 
level of man machine interfaces).

So yes simple is best for beginners, the availability of "as complex as you 
want", for not so beginners, is also very important.

As to the current version problem, well it's true of everything (software, 
hardware, fast cars, medical procedures, etc.), stay away from bleeding edge 
stuff, most users can't handle cutting edge stuff. But marketing is the urge 
to push the latest and greatest...

Why would you get yelled at for using Fedora, or any other distro? With the 
exception of Vista possibly.

And even at that I'd love to have someone with real hands on, at work and at 
home, experience with Vista tell us about the experience.

That's someone that is also aware of and uses GNU/Linux everyday. It would 
help in writing a FAQ.

Don.
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 On Sunday 29 April 2007 01:33 pm, Jacob Maynard wrote:
This is the kind of thing I am talking about. Editing xorg.conf alone will
turn away a lot of people. We need to find something where no editing is
required, it is just set up right. And remember that not everyone is
interested it making their own software to fix different things. It needs
to be all-inclusive. When someone wants to start programming their own
software, then they should know that they have the choice.

Remember that we are dealing with people who have dealt with Windows for
the last 20 years. In Windows, you didn't edit some file to make your
video card work to its fullest. We can't expect the people we are trying
to sway to be okay with that option.

That being said, I'm going to throw this one out there and wait to get
yelled at by you all. I have run Fedora 5 and 6, and I think they are very
user-friendly, though you can't edit your Apache conf file with the visual
editor that they have. Otherwise, it has everything you need as a basic
desktop. So, that's my thought.

Oh, and we can't expect users to know about the most current version of
KDE, either. These updates have to be able to be applied with only a click
or two of the user.

Jacob

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