On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 21:40 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
...... Original Message .......
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:36:33 -0500 "Eric S. Raymond" <esr(a)thyrsus.com>
wrote:
>The user needs a button to push and a simple menu, and and interface
>that *requires effectively no thought or decisions*.
I disagree. Software installation that 'requires effectively no thought or
decision' has left Windows a wasteland of spyware, rootkits and other
malware.
Humans could have left the solar system by now if we hadn't wasted billions
of man hours and money on dealing with that one aspect of Windows' design.
/+5 Funny ;)
I second the above.
Making Fedora (or Linux for that matter) idiot free will only create a
second, semi-open-source, Windows.
If a user can't be bothered to read a FAQ, google for help, or, heaven
forbids, learn how to configure pirut/yum/rpm, he shouldn't be using
Fedora (or Linux).
Come to think about it, unless this user's computer is being actively
administered by someone else, he shouldn't be using a computer to being
with. (If it does, then his administrator is perfectly capable of
installing nonfree codecs, nVidia/ATI drivers, etc on its own. No need
to dumb down Fedora)
I'm all for making Fedora easier to use.
I just don't want Fedora to end up looking, behaving (and ultimately,
crashing) like Windows.
Gilboa