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Re: [News] [Linux] Ease of Use in GNU/Linux: A Case Study

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] Ease of Use in GNU/Linux: A Case Study
  • From: Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 19:21:44 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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  • References: <2471758.sHlz8iD61J@schestowitz.com>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:521883
On Wed, 09 May 2007 03:09:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> The Tale of the Accidental Upgrade - An experiment with Linux goes horribly
> right.
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | That may seem a silly statement, but I have taught people to use MS
> | Windows over the years, and to a large degree it is not that it is
> | easy to use, it is that people are trained in using it, with all
> | of its various user interface interactions. KDE is just as easy, 
> | if not easier, even if it is different in some ways.

This, of course, is what most of the Wintrolls overlook: it's not that
Windows is easier; it's not.  It is simply _familiar_.  Not the same thing
at all.

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