Thanks! I’ll give those instructions to Grandma- she’ll be up and running in no time.
Look, how hard is it to understand? In this day and asge NO ONE wants to fiddle with the operating system. Except you Linux geeks.
I have been WRITING SOFTWARE FOR A LIVING for over THREE DECADES.
I have been using both Windows and Linux (mostly for embedded medical devices and military hardware) and I understand it is clearly a superior operating system FOR SOME THINGS, but being user-friendly is NOT one of them.
And that is why Microsoft owns the world even though UNIX/Linux has been around much longer, and many parts of windows bites the big one.
But when the Y38 problem comes around, what are you guys going to do? (hint: running out of clock ‘ticks’)
Buy grandma a PC/Laptop that already has Linux installed.
She’ll never have to worry about 30 minute restarts after an update or forced upgrades to a new version of the OS.
But when the Y38 problem comes around, what are you guys going to do? (hint: running out of clock ‘ticks’)Problem #5: The myth of "user-friendly"
This is a big one. It's a very big term in the computing world, "user-friendly". It's even the name of a particularly good webcomic. But it's a bad term.
The basic concept is good: That software be designed with the needs of the user in mind. But it's always addressed as a single concept, which it isn't. If you spend your entire life processing text files, your ideal software will be fast and powerful, enabling you to do the maximum amount of work for the minimum amount of effort. Simple keyboard shortcuts and mouseless operation will be of vital importance.
But if you very rarely edit text files, and you just want to write an occasional letter, the last thing you want is to struggle with learning keyboard shortcuts. Well-organized menus and clear icons in toolbars will be your ideal.
Clearly, software designed around the needs of the first user will not be suitable for the second, and vice versa. So how can any software be called "user-friendly", if we all have different needs?
The simple answer: User-friendly is a misnomer, and one that makes a complex situation seem simple.
What does "user-friendly" really mean? Well, in the context in which it is used, "user friendly" software means "Software that can be used to a reasonable level of competence by a user with no previous experience of the software." This has the unfortunate effect of making lousy-but-familiar interfaces fall into the category of "user-friendly".
This question betrays your motive. Y38 will be an obsolete issue by the time it comes around, and if you spent any time at all in the linux sphere, you would know this.
Frankly, if all you are gonna do is criticize and complain about Linux, feel free to ignore these threads.
The Y38 problem? Had to look that one up. But there are possible solutions it seems.