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Making Things Easy Is Hard
paul.dunne writes "John Gruber of Daring Fireball has written
a long and considered riposte to
Eric Raymond's recent lament concerning the poor quality of user interfaces in free software.
The core of his argument is that 'developing software with
a good UI requires both aptitude and a lot of hard work.' One point that particularly struck me: according to Gruber, 'Unix nerds who care about usability are switching
to Mac OS X in droves'!"
droves eh?
drove : (drov) n. definition: A stonemason's broad-edged chisel used for rough hewing.
I agree with simoniker, that's quite a striking point. I wonder how John Gruber gathered this information.
These April fools joke articles are killing me! Please put me out of my misery.
Might as well pull a joke on myself now. Comeon, Aprils fools is almost over, slashdot me again!
Oh the shame... I will be the fool.
Oh when will april fools be over... How about when SCO thanks Redhat.. Hey, what do you know
Ok, so we're talking about a group of people who are:
1) Unix Geeks
that
2) decided to roll back their "Discordian" t-shirt long enough to find their (gratis) copy of PC magazine wot mentions the unix workalike underpinnings of OS X. (we're talking -UNIX- geek here people)
3) don't like the available Linux gui options.
4) are willing to pay twice as much (at least) than they would for an x86 Unix workalike
5) have trouble with gui usability...
This person doesn't exist. Unix geek = someone who enlists in the vi/emacs Blood War. People who bitch about GUI usability = people who bitch about "right clicking".
I'm almost serious. Who are these people...?
-dameron
TEH SMIONEKRE... IS IT GOOD OR IS IT TEH SPOKE?
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Just like a Machead to say: "See? It wasn't just me. Linux is too hard. I really am an ubernerd. Only paid professionals can really implement those UI fine touches. Give up on Linux, surrender your wallet, and happily rest your head on the busom of Apple..."
And I say "F**k you, luser."
You think linux is hard now? Try getting crap done on linux back in 1995. I don't think you could even get a working GUI without hand configuring modelines into XF86Config.
Linux is not easy enough for "Aunt Tillie" to use. So what? Linux isn't meant for common lusers today. Eventually, we'd like it to be so smooth that average users could use it -- so they can stop bugging us with their windoze questions. The whole point of ESR's rant was merely to alert and refocus OSS developers. It was not a mea culpa.
And if you're sick and tired of trying to figure out how to make things work in Linux, and you really only use computers for user application X, THEN GO BUY A MAC! I GIVE YOU MY BLESSING! But don't expect me to respect you for it. Or join you in blowing money on your DRM music. Or sympathize that you can't get application X done because Apple doesn't support it yet, or your machine is too old.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
I cannot for the fucking life of me understand why you homosexual crapple fans keep pretending the crapintosh is good. It's not. If it was good it would be on every desktop but guess what? It's not and it isn't.
yeah, too bad for such a visionary that you have an ugly ass website.
Linux hasn't just failed to produce a system that Aunt Tillie can use - it has failed to produce a system that ERIC S. RAYMOND can use! That is a pretty spectacular failure.
I'm sorry, but who gives a fuck? I'm not trying to troll here, but if he can't use it that's tough. There are plenty of people using Linux for their day to day work. I'm one of them.
A the end of the day, most people are writing open source programs to solve a problem that they have. It just so happens that quite often this problem is common, and others can make use of it. If they don't, it's no big loss.
i'm waiting for niggabyte hard drives...so i can use it as a slave drive