the 'average user' doesn't need an html editer or ftp either. but the 'average linux user' might
But this isn't the point of the article. He's trying to say that if Linux is ever going to make it out of a developer/power user/random curious person market, it needs to have a more limited set of software. With Windows, you get a command line FTP program, and if you want more, you install them.
This doesn't neccessarily mean that we want to follow in exactly Windows' footsteps, but this gives you a bit of flexibility, without bloat, and without handpruning seven different FTP clients.
Someone's a poweruser and wants a diffent FTP client? They know enough to download their choice of software and compile and run it.
I'd hate to see developers and the Linux community ignore articles like this, because I beleive that this is a common problem with new Linux users-
New user: How do I FTP a file from www.netscape.com?
Linux Friend: Well- let's see... Do you want barebones FTP, tab completion, KDE GUI based, or something else?
New User: Huh?
What we don't need is yet another distribution. (My brother is realeasing Little Timmy Linux 1.8 soon) I'd rather see something along the lines of Zip Slack, or BigSlack just a modified distro.
Slashdot style moderation for the entire net!
Think of the possibilities! Schools could block sites modded as porn, while your college buddies could filter out nothing but.
Cept of course for the user, who spent a month of weekends on the phone while all other techs pointed fingers at each other; and who also just blew $180 on a 3com modem from their local tech trying to make a buck.
For a new user, if you tell them to go to the menu bar, they don't have to ask "which one?", if there's only one.
Right up until a newbie starts running more than one program at once; or forgeting to close an app, start another up and close it- only to be confronted with the first program's menu again. This came up all the time while I took calls, along with- 'Where'd my Special menu go?'
As more and more people buy computers who aren't technically inclined, they start to pull companies over to their cluelessness. Any computer company is going to go where they see money. More people I've spoken with as a support tech who don't have a clue just expect their computer to work like magic. A computer's a computer, right? Aren't they all basically the same?
It should be among the fastest clock cycles, lots of RAM, a huge hard drive and lots of software all for three easy payments of $19.95! (Insert cheesy announcer/local computer retailer schpeal here)
If they can't get one computer company to build one for them that they like, they'll find some other company that will sell them crap, as long as it's at the right price. Hopefully these people learn after their first purchase.
I personally think that as the gaming community gets older this will become less and less of an issue. People who grew up with all of this will certainly be more comfortable with it.
Certainly not everyone who grew up playing games like Legend of Zelda on the 8 bit NES would agree, but the majority of people that say 'Wizards and Warriors is the Devil!' thin out as they realize that they spent four hours a day in an arcade.
I'm also curious if there was ever any sort of concern similar to this with Cowboys & Indians?
Courtesy of the Babel Fish
Can at least get a rough idea...
The innomadas ends corresponding to this Sunday measure the time of history, writing: They have discovered beds of the Mars ocean. They refer the scientists of the NASA who trust the information of the global Mars topographer, that has transmitted the detailed panels of the rock which they would have been possible to only create by the sedimentation. A complete warning waits for the next week of the NASA -- it would not be pleasant if release/versión simply the news as they happen rather that that creates the events of the news?
Slashdot Mirror
www.tomshardware.com (!)
But this isn't the point of the article. He's trying to say that if Linux is ever going to make it out of a developer/power user/random curious person market, it needs to have a more limited set of software. With Windows, you get a command line FTP program, and if you want more, you install them.
This doesn't neccessarily mean that we want to follow in exactly Windows' footsteps, but this gives you a bit of flexibility, without bloat, and without handpruning seven different FTP clients.
Someone's a poweruser and wants a diffent FTP client? They know enough to download their choice of software and compile and run it.
I'd hate to see developers and the Linux community ignore articles like this, because I beleive that this is a common problem with new Linux users-
New user: How do I FTP a file from www.netscape.com?
Linux Friend: Well- let's see... Do you want barebones FTP, tab completion, KDE GUI based, or something else?
New User: Huh?
What we don't need is yet another distribution. (My brother is realeasing Little Timmy Linux 1.8 soon) I'd rather see something along the lines of Zip Slack, or BigSlack just a modified distro.
Slashdot style moderation for the entire net!
Think of the possibilities! Schools could block sites modded as porn, while your college buddies could filter out nothing but.
And then your Mom really could be a Karma whore!
And then, we'll have optical storage that will hold 650MB of data, we won't need to buy big hard drives to play the latest games!
Oh... wait...
Rather than:
mouse1.button1
mouse2.button1
Why not:
mice.button1
etc...
mice.button7
Then you wouldn't have to rewrite apps to poll two mice.
Cept of course for the user, who spent a month of weekends on the phone while all other techs pointed fingers at each other; and who also just blew $180 on a 3com modem from their local tech trying to make a buck.
Right up until a newbie starts running more than one program at once; or forgeting to close an app, start another up and close it- only to be confronted with the first program's menu again. This came up all the time while I took calls, along with- 'Where'd my Special menu go?'
It should be among the fastest clock cycles, lots of RAM, a huge hard drive and lots of software all for three easy payments of $19.95! (Insert cheesy announcer/local computer retailer schpeal here)
If they can't get one computer company to build one for them that they like, they'll find some other company that will sell them crap, as long as it's at the right price. Hopefully these people learn after their first purchase.
So 2798 makes a rocket ship! (Or a triangle for you boring people.)
Certainly not everyone who grew up playing games like Legend of Zelda on the 8 bit NES would agree, but the majority of people that say 'Wizards and Warriors is the Devil!' thin out as they realize that they spent four hours a day in an arcade.
I'm also curious if there was ever any sort of concern similar to this with Cowboys & Indians?
Courtesy of the Babel Fish Can at least get a rough idea... The innomadas ends corresponding to this Sunday measure the time of history, writing: They have discovered beds of the Mars ocean. They refer the scientists of the NASA who trust the information of the global Mars topographer, that has transmitted the detailed panels of the rock which they would have been possible to only create by the sedimentation. A complete warning waits for the next week of the NASA -- it would not be pleasant if release/versión simply the news as they happen rather that that creates the events of the news?