In fact, I have used Ubuntu. I really like it. And while it is, hands down, the best yet, it still has a ways to go. You might try taking a sedative, or not taking this so personally.
I have been a tech writer for about 15 years, writing end user guides. I also have MANY friends who are either low or non technical. I say this to point out that, while I have a foot in tech, I also have a foot on the rest of the world and I deal with end users and watch how they use things. I totally agree with you. That has been my problem with Linux for a very long time. I've used MKLinux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandrake, SuSE and some others I cannot remember. I have worked on all the major and some of the minor commercial platforms (Windows, Mac, SGI, HP, Sun, etc.). The most incomprehensible, that I can recall offhand, is Linux. If the Linux community could get together and standardize on some naming that made sense to adults (and presented the product in a way that adults could respect), that would go a long way to making Linux confrontable.
I am a semi-technical guy who talked almost all of his friends onto Macs. They are pretty much non-technical people and Apple machines with Mac OS 9 was a perfect match for them. I am in the process of updating everyone's machine to OS X and No ONE likes the interface, with its bouncing icons and ugly design (only XP is uglier). Also, EVERYONE HATES THE DOCK and finds its default behaviour insulting. Not to mention that the way the Trash icon behaves makes it very hard for many people to drag and drop something onto it. I realize that there is always some resistance to change, but this goes way beyond that. I think Apple really messed this up by not thinking its design through. They are trying to make the interface do all things in many ways at the expense of the simplicity it used to have.
Oil, land and possibly opium:
http://www.buzzflashcom.bigstep.com/generic.html;$ sessionid$310PJQIAAFEGBWGIHUXZPQWYZA4S1PX0?pid=2
And in all of this, let us not forget that bin Laden and Taliban have been, to a great extent, been funded and backed by the CIA.
And by the way, there is not, and can never be any justification for an act like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Only US citizens have a right to Habeas Corpus (Gonzales' ridiculous statements on the issue aside).
So, we can arrest any non-citizen and keep him in jail for as long as we want? Without process? What planet do you live on?
In fact, I have used Ubuntu. I really like it. And while it is, hands down, the best yet, it still has a ways to go. You might try taking a sedative, or not taking this so personally.
I have been a tech writer for about 15 years, writing end user guides. I also have MANY friends who are either low or non technical. I say this to point out that, while I have a foot in tech, I also have a foot on the rest of the world and I deal with end users and watch how they use things. I totally agree with you. That has been my problem with Linux for a very long time. I've used MKLinux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandrake, SuSE and some others I cannot remember. I have worked on all the major and some of the minor commercial platforms (Windows, Mac, SGI, HP, Sun, etc.). The most incomprehensible, that I can recall offhand, is Linux. If the Linux community could get together and standardize on some naming that made sense to adults (and presented the product in a way that adults could respect), that would go a long way to making Linux confrontable.
I am a semi-technical guy who talked almost all of his friends onto Macs. They are pretty much non-technical people and Apple machines with Mac OS 9 was a perfect match for them. I am in the process of updating everyone's machine to OS X and No ONE likes the interface, with its bouncing icons and ugly design (only XP is uglier). Also, EVERYONE HATES THE DOCK and finds its default behaviour insulting. Not to mention that the way the Trash icon behaves makes it very hard for many people to drag and drop something onto it. I realize that there is always some resistance to change, but this goes way beyond that. I think Apple really messed this up by not thinking its design through. They are trying to make the interface do all things in many ways at the expense of the simplicity it used to have.
Oil, land and possibly opium: http://www.buzzflashcom.bigstep.com/generic.html;$ sessionid$310PJQIAAFEGBWGIHUXZPQWYZA4S1PX0?pid=2
And in all of this, let us not forget that bin Laden and Taliban have been, to a great extent, been funded and backed by the CIA.
And by the way, there is not, and can never be any justification for an act like this.