interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Tue, 23 May 2006 09:41:42 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 17:49 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> 
>> worth a read, funny if nothing else. Also makes a very good point, which many 
>> people miss.
>> 
>> http://www.microbabble.com/why-vi.html
>> 
> Needs a few corrective points though,
> 
> e.g. there's absolutely no reason anybody needs to do anything to turn
> on DMA, because it's done automatically if it won't fudge your system.
> 
> I'd also challenge that as an example, because if you don't know what
> "turning on DMA does" then you probably don't have the knowledge to
> decide whether or not you should do so -- so an "easy GUI" to do it
> would be pointless.
>
> I generally dislike "Easy Settings GUIs" because those things still
> require knowledge of what the settings mean.

Ofcourse, the neccessary knowledge could be provided in the GUI
(help-screen/mouse-over/whatever), and you could hide the DMA-setting in
an Advanced Settings-tab or -window. People coming from another OS
(like XP) might know perfectly well what DMA is about, but have now clue
on how to use the CLI.
Therefor, an easy GUI for such settings certainly wouldn't be pointless at
all.

> No matter how much icing
> and marzipan you stick around a cake, you still need to know what's
> inside it.

Really? I rarely (if ever) read the ingredients-part before cutting/eating
a cake. There's no need to know what's inside for most people.

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