Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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No, that is completly wrong! No one should ever have to search for anything or read any manual. It should be self explanatory and just work. Anything less is a bug.
Why, on earth, are manuals written then?
A) To waste space on the harddrive. After all, everyone loves bloat (check out services.msc btw).
B) To waste paper. After all, less nature is more living space.
C) To make the user feel stupid so he evades that confrontation after his or her first manual experience.
D) To make the user be able to learn something, possibly when he or she can't do it by 'self explanatory' and 'just work' paths.
My oh my, hard question! Perhaps tossing a coin between A and B will bring us the answer? Or just picking C because it seems the most plausible? Or could the answer be D?!?!?