Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 21st Nov 2006 18:05 UTC
In this article Joel talks about the number of choices in applications. "This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for "Making Everybody Happy," but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink."
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2006-10-10
Yes, confusing and confounding sometimes, but it needs to be there. Even the hundreds of versions of Linux have their uses....although I'm still not exactly sure what they are.
As far as mac's being easy to use....I gave my sister my old bondi imac running OS X 10.1. I also bought her a 2 button mouse so it would feel more like what she's used to. She couldn't figure out how to get the pics people attach to emails to save on her hard drive....and even if she did manage it, she would lose where they were. Pretty soon she had that machine as hosed as a lot of the Windows PCs I've come across. Everything has a learning curve, especially OSs. Mac OS is no easier/harder to use than Windows. If you don't believe that, then ask a Windows user to eject a CD on a MAC, for example.
As far as tutoring people who own a PC, you have to teach them one way, and one way only....especially to those who refer to the tower as a "hard drive". Get them in the OS, get them out of it, and get them done as quickly as possible.