Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 15:40:03 12/08/01
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On December 08, 2001 at 08:58:21, Frank Phillips wrote: > >I suspect that the average computer user knows as little about WIndows as they >do about Linux or any other OS - and rightly so. For most people it is just a >tool. Switch on, click on the Word processor icon etc. One of the problem >Linux seems to still have (and I am a fan and use it instead of Windows now) is >insisting that Linux has to be different and you need to understand why what you >do works. I have even seen some hardcore gurus arguing that the latest set of >point and click Mandrake tools to set up your modem etc are a bad thing - and >ridiculing others because when it does not work they do not know what to do. > >Frank The OS should save you from reading manuals if possible. The problem with Linux is the poor help documentation. I had a problem with my monitor and had to dig in to the XF86Config-file. It took me almost a day to figure out what to do. And if I look at a random man-page, I usually don't understand half of what is "explained". Not that Windows is any better, just annoying in a different way. But the RTFM-culture (read elitist culture) in the Unix-community has to be stopped before it can be a real challange to MS, at least for Joe User. Ralf
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