ordinary computer user

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:15 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> The interface just isn't up to the standards they're
> used to (especially the Mac users found the interface to be
> sub-standard) and none of them were impressed by the GUI behaviour of
> switching apps, etc.

Eric, 

I found some of your remarks amusing, as I'm used to linux GUI
interfaces and recently bought an iBook G4 Mac... At first I found the
OS-X Acqua interface extremely unintuitive: the metaphors are just
different, and take some time to understand. Most of the difficulties
with the GUI I would say boil down to people being unimpressed simply
because it is *not* what they are accustomed to.

I'm quite happy now booting into Ubuntu and using Mac-on-Linux when I
have to .... Which is to say, hardly ever.

Peter