Re: Re: Call It "Linux that WORKS for Everyone ELSE, too"

> I'm sure that you're just talking about wrapping the incomprehensible 
> and/or tedius stuff in an ugly GUI right?  'Cus lots of us think that 
> incomprehensible stuff is what makes Linux great.  It sure is easier 
> to script incomprehensible stuff than it is a GUI app. :)

Doesn't mean the other incomprehensible stuff can't be there underneath 
for the more technically inclined.

That's what I don't get about Linux people who try to get regular 
non-geek computer users to switch and then are frustrated when they 
don't.  People don't want to learn how to insmod a usbdriver and use 
udev to mount their usb hard drive (I just made that up so don't grill 
me if it's not technically correct).  They want to plug it in and have 
it show up automatically.  Until there is that (and I'm not saying 
there isn't now, but it's few and far between), and there are GUI tools 
that a monkey can figure out, getting typical users to use Linux after 
the novelty has worn off won't happen.

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