Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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people post this kind of article as "Linux Needs etc. etc.".
This article (and those similar to it) has been ranting on and on abou why Linux needs this, Linux lacks that, Linux has too much of this. People tend to forget that Linux is about choice.
You don't have to use Fedora nor do you have to use SuSE. Those distros have their own target groups. Have you even considered that you might not be in said groups? Again, I say again... Linux is about choice, distrowatch.com lists at least a hundred distros to choose from, and at least a dozen of them touts ease of use as their main feature. Have you considered that you have made a wrong choice of distro?
And on the topic of RPMs... you either love it or hate it to the core. I'm from the latter school of though. Hence, I don't use any distro that uses RPMs as its primary method of binary installation. My choice, and I can live with it.
Yet another issue in your article is that you fail to mention that the "usability aspect" you're attempting to dissect is more towards "desktop users". That might make your article seem more consistent with the topic at hand. Because believe it or not, Linux in some areas (servers, gateways, etc.) are much, much more usable and user-friendly than the OSs (and the relevant apps) it replaced.
But since this article is an expression of your opinions, I respect it highly eventhough I might not agree with some of the points you've made. I however, find it mildly irritating that you did not expand your horizons to the more "user-friendly" distros before you claim that the whole of Linuxdom needs a usability facelift.