🚀 go-pugleaf

mulder78@ix.netcom.com (Brian Mueller) writes:

> Chris Saunderson wrote:
> 
> >The simple message is - leave your windows baggage at the door when
> >you enter Linux world. You _should_ be prepared to have to work at
> >getting your machine stable, solid and working. If not, stay
> >out!
> 
> I hate it when people say this. :( Why can't Linux be an OS that
> competes with Windows, providing users with a choice? For that it must
> be more user friendly. :-)

Why should Linux be an OS that competes with Windows, provides
users with a choice, and becomes more user friendly?

Windows is developed by programmers, for clueless users. There
is a lot of money involved to give the programmers incentive.

Linux is developed by programmers, for programmers. There is a
lovely OS waiting for them at the end, that's the incentive.

Why would Linux developers want to write something for Windows
users? What do the developers get out of it? Complaints? Users
who don't want to learn or aren't able to learn, whinging that
Linux really sucks? That's hardly an incentive!

btw: I'm just playing devil's advocate, as I've yet to see any
person justify the "Linux the Windows Killer" argument.

> ps how cold is it in Austrailia when you're reading this? It's 82 F
> (about 20 centigrade/celsius) here in California. I hear that in
> Austailia it's winter.

And it's bloody cold in Canberra. Thank Linus for gas heating.

-- 
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use
a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for
computing than it is for other tools (eg automobiles, airplanes, guns
or power saws).