Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

hankmt writes "About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores). And the product sales page at wal-mart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old Linux users alike."

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The link to xemacs.org in your profile pretty much covers where you're coming from, in case I needed it to figure out that neither you nor your boss have taken 30 minutes to customize Word to work the way you want it to. Let me guess, it's A-OK to spend 8 hours doing the same to Emacs or Vim, but Word doesn't ship with defaults you enjoy, so therefore it's "hell" and you hate it.

I use Word in "minimalistic" mode, with no toolbars at all. I have a crapload of custom keyboard mappings to make it easier to do things. It works OK, for me.

OTOH, I've seen co-workers breeze through cluttered Office interfaces (let's turn on all the toolbars, yay!) with no problem whatsoever, mostly because they know where everything is. I doubt they "hate it" at all. I'd say they're quite productive, even. After all, you can customize to your heart's content if you don't like the defaults. Oh wait, I already mentioned that.

I think people like you are completely disconnected from the way people use software. I'm a developer and I catch myself doing that sometimes as well. But if you dislike a general-purpose consumer software application like Word on principle, don't try to look for exciting technical or ergonomic arguments to come up with reasons to hate it. Just say you hate it and carry on.