Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:59:11 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1008536351.4c2495@mired.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EzBSD aint for me! Was: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <15382.29599.349155.309028@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20011211214943.A4489@tisys.org> References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <01121010202100.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <20011211144049.A14693@acidpit.org> <20011211214943.A4489@tisys.org>
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Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> types: > The morale of this story: As I said in the beginning, defining something as > "easy to use" is entirely relative. Furthermore, I doubt that today's > "Plug-And-Play" anticipation is worth much: There is software you don't > have to learn, thus you save a few hours of learning it. But what if > something that requires learning costs you 5 hours to learn, and then saves > you 30 minutes a day? In the long run, this will probably be the better > thing. Stuff with pretty pictures that can be used by illiterates right out of the box used to be called "user friendly". A friend of mine called what you've described as "expert friendly". Systems which are "user friendly" without being flexible - like Windows - are "expert hostile". Systems which are neither user nor expert friendly, aka MVS, are "user hostile". I have nothing against making FreeBSD easier to use or more "user-friendly". Just so long as changes that make it friendlier don't make it less stable, less reliable, less secure, or less flexible. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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