A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Sat Oct 20 22:50:17 UTC 2007


On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like
> > Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows.  "Windows does ...." is
> > really an irrelvant argument from my perspective.
>
> Should I throw away absolutely all advantages of running Ubuntu, and
> go back to Windows just because backspace in Firefox doesn't do what I
> want? Don't even bother mentioning about:config, very few users know
> that exists.

Well you found the bug, so you do.  Your choice.  Linux is like that (the 
choice part).

Not losing data regularly is a big win for me.  You're saying it's better for 
people to lose data than to have to learn to use a program slightly 
differently.


Scott K




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