Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 09:58:11 05/24/02
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On May 24, 2002 at 12:13:50, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On May 24, 2002 at 11:51:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>It already does this. That was the point. If you want to use a GUI-based >>file manager to locate files, just check the "ignore case sensitivity" box >>and away you go. While I still get to use case sensitive filenames when >>I want.. > >I think the file manager should be in the case-insensitivity mode by default. >And maybe changable to case-sensitivity under >Extras->Options->Settings->Preferences->Enable case-sensitivity. (hope you get >the idea :) > >Keep in mind, that the average user is not that skilled, sometimes also is >nervous because she is not very familiar with the computer and unsure about a >lot of things. In these cases, having a lot of features is equal to not being >useable. Not everyone is a power user. > >Let's take another example: installation of the OS > >(1) >With Linux (I used LinuxPPC2000 I think, this may be different with other >distributions) the installer asked me lots of questions about how many >partitions I want, how big they should be, what path I would like to mount there >etc > >(2) >With OSX I simply chose one partition and clicked on Install, that's it. One click install is an option for some of the latest Linux distros as well. I don't know about OS X, but I once installed Win98. It was definitely no one click install, rather 50 clicks and 15 reboots. And then you still can't do much more than playing Solitair and Minesweeper. To do something usefull with your machine you have still a few ours with rebooting in playing disk-jockey before you. A fully functional Linux install can sometimes take less then 30min now. May the situation has changed with later versions of Windows, but the Linux bashing here is beating dead horses as well. ...wait moment. When you install XP, the installer will ask which filesystem to use: FAT or NTFS , right ? Is this an easy choice for Joe Average ? Try to explain him the difference, good luck ! > >Of course it's nice to be able to use different partitions, but the average user >won't need this. And I still can open the shell, mount other partitions and move >user directories there, or the swap file. So I'm happy. And the average user is >also happy because she didn't have to care about all these things. > >Now you're prolly saying that with Linux the user could simply take the default >values and not think about it anymore. Well, that's true. But, for the average >user, this was yet-another-question-I-didnt-understand. And if something doesn't >work later, she will think that it was because she didn't answer some questions >correctly while the install, and go back to Windows. (although maybe she just >forgot to quote something or whatever) > >Summary: >For power users, flexibility is almost always A Good Thing, but the average >user, often it's A Bad Thing. > >Sargon > >PS. Everything I've said above is just my opinion. :)
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