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From: Jarek Luberek <jarek@swipnet.se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 09:18:29 +0100
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David Tan wrote:
>
> Not particularly. I think a distinction should be made between
> "user-friendly" and "beginner-friendly". Ideally, of course, the
> two are not exclusive; certainly nothing pejorative should be
> associated with the latter. Yet in the media and in common use,
> "user-friendly" always means "easy-to-learn" whether or not the
> product in question is actually easy to use on an extended basis.
> Vi to me is an example of "easy-to-use/not-easy-to-learn" whereas
> the pure GUI (e.g.) is to me "easy-to-learn/not-easy-to-use."
This has some many equivalents, an extreme one being Word-TeX and
goes for Unix vs. NT as well. So, how do we make Unix easy(ier) to
learn?
/Jarek
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