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Usability and Open Source Software
Martin Soto writes "This article by two user interaction researchers, discusses many of the usability problems in current open source projects. The nice part is that, unlike many /. readers, it doesn't stop there, but goes into suggesting novel (at least for the OSS community) approaches to cope with those problems in an open source compatible way. Worth a read to those that, like me, still think that OSS should find its way to every desktop computer."
If an open source meca like slashdot can't be h-cap accessible, what makes you think that open source software could ever be useable?
What an odd and disturbing trend. People publicly admitting that they are unable to perform tasks that tens of thousands of other people have performed with little or no trouble. What is even more odd is that you get moderated up so high.
I used to get pissed off at people who would glibly and gleefully admit that "they did not understand math" or "computers confused them" as if math and computer skills were somehow optional in this world. Now I am going to have to make room in my big ass loser bag for people who are unable to install linux.
Why are people ashamed to admit that they don't know how to read and write but are perfectly happy broadcasting their ignorance about math, computers or inability to install an operating system that tens of thousands of other people have had no problems with. Are those people smarter then you? Maybe so huh?
P.S. Maybe you ought to try lindows or xandros. I hear they are very easy to install for people like you and they are based on debian.
War is necrophilia.