The problem with your statement is that people aren't supposed to know or care about stuff like media formats regarding where the media will be played. They should care about only for the quality and other properties of the media format like lossy or lossless, compressed or not.
Let me say what I think about this:
Music is music in whichever digital format may it be, so I want the music files to play in *ANY* music player be it software (like WMP, Winamp, Amarok, etc.) or hardware (iPOD, Sansa, iRiver, etc.).
Although I am able to differentiate between different formats and I understand why DRMed media won't play on non DRM enabled devices, my point is that this should not be this way!
There is nothing wrong with simplicity. I love simplicity. And Gnome is simple enough. You fire it up, and it works. You are able to do your daily tasks on the back of Gnome easily. That's all OK for me. But as time goes by, you could come up with the idea what if this or that feature would work a little bit different? How could I configure to better suit my needs? And this is the point where you are going through all the menus looking for a Control Panel or Control Center like tool from which you could start tweaking everything you would need. And that's what - IMO - Gnome lacks. I am happy with the sane - or not so sane - defaults of Gnome for a time. But then, something's going to start to itch my ass to look for tweaking tools to better configure what I want, and if I want to configure everything I would like to be able to do so.
This inability of Gnome to configure everything what I might want to is considered by me a negative thing around Gnome. I'm not saying this will stop me using Gnome over KDE, but I would like the ability to configure everything. I think having different choices in the OSS world does not only mean you have to choose between Gnome and KDE or any other desktop environment, but having configuration choices in just one of them. Not everybody likes their favorite DE as it comes out of the box. So let people do what they want with it: configure.
It's a known fact that the screwed up order of the letters in a word doesn't make it much more hard to read as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. Even for me it's easy to read, being a native hungarian speaker.
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The problem with your statement is that people aren't supposed to know or care about stuff like media formats regarding where the media will be played. They should care about only for the quality and other properties of the media format like lossy or lossless, compressed or not. Let me say what I think about this: Music is music in whichever digital format may it be, so I want the music files to play in *ANY* music player be it software (like WMP, Winamp, Amarok, etc.) or hardware (iPOD, Sansa, iRiver, etc.). Although I am able to differentiate between different formats and I understand why DRMed media won't play on non DRM enabled devices, my point is that this should not be this way!
There is nothing wrong with simplicity. I love simplicity. And Gnome is simple enough. You fire it up, and it works. You are able to do your daily tasks on the back of Gnome easily. That's all OK for me. But as time goes by, you could come up with the idea what if this or that feature would work a little bit different? How could I configure to better suit my needs? And this is the point where you are going through all the menus looking for a Control Panel or Control Center like tool from which you could start tweaking everything you would need. And that's what - IMO - Gnome lacks. I am happy with the sane - or not so sane - defaults of Gnome for a time. But then, something's going to start to itch my ass to look for tweaking tools to better configure what I want, and if I want to configure everything I would like to be able to do so. This inability of Gnome to configure everything what I might want to is considered by me a negative thing around Gnome. I'm not saying this will stop me using Gnome over KDE, but I would like the ability to configure everything. I think having different choices in the OSS world does not only mean you have to choose between Gnome and KDE or any other desktop environment, but having configuration choices in just one of them. Not everybody likes their favorite DE as it comes out of the box. So let people do what they want with it: configure.
It's a known fact that the screwed up order of the letters in a word doesn't make it much more hard to read as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. Even for me it's easy to read, being a native hungarian speaker.