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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: "Stephan Schaem" <tthai@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:08:30 -0700
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The problem is with the apps and general UI system.
Dont know if its still the case, but getting to use an app,
was getting to know the programmer mind under unix for each and every app.
With OSX if you learn how to open a file in one app, great chances more then
that app will use that method.
I overhead people today in a store discovering why they PC with one click cd burning
was not working... they put the original cd in the CDRW and the blank in the DVD player.
Under linux it doesn't take much to have mass user be lost to the point that they need
human assistance. Would you be ready so offer this support to millions ?
Having a user friendly OS is more then having a tweaked kernal on a CD.
"David Cantrell" <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk> wrote in message j8eukts68qfrh1lo3flmkgpe1ufpqcanbt@4ax.com">news:j8eukts68qfrh1lo3flmkgpe1ufpqcanbt@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:50:18 +0200, "LordDaha" <look@signature.com>
> said:
>
> >"Bob Retelle" <bobr1@provide.net> wrote in message
> >dcpskt8o93grt93kd0qpr9q3mt95oacsqk@4ax.com">news:dcpskt8o93grt93kd0qpr9q3mt95oacsqk@4ax.com...
> >>
> >> >As OS? (Linux is a dead giveaway, but there also other OS's out there)
> >>
> >> Gak. You said "userfriendly" up there. Linux is out. Waayyyy out.
> >
> >Weird. I think you should check out a recent Linux distribution.
>
> I've been using and sysadminning Linux for the past few years, and
> none of the distributions I've tried have been sufficiently
> idiot-proof to put in a consumer device*. However, that doesn't mean
> that one couldn't be created.
>
> Now that I've been using it for a couple of weeks, this 'ere Debian
> box behaves perfectly. I can and do use it as an appliance sometimes,
> and at other times - well, there's all the other goodies there so I
> can hack away.
>
> I turn it on, and, after a minute or so, I'm at a graphical login. I
> log in and I have a desktop, with common applications already on the
> desktop and less-common applications in a small drop-down menu. The
> Gnome panel across the top has a clock, a battery meter, and a
> shutdown button, (and cos I'm somewhat more of a 'power user' than
> what we're targetting, it has virtual desktops, task lists, etc as
> well). It all 'just works'. And because the important config files
> are protected, dumb users can't just break it. I have to explicitly
> make myself root to break it.
>
> * - nor is Windows. How many consumer devices do you have to go
> through umpteen arcane menus and options to do something trivial? Not
> even my VCR is as badly designed as Windows.
>
> --
> David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david