Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 4th Aug 2008 14:35 UTC, submitted by Hakime
"The best open source applications and operating systems are more usable now than they were then. But this is largely from slow incremental improvements, and low-level competition between projects and distributors. Major problems with the design process itself remain largely unfixed." Personal Note: I am not sure how many people feel that Free Software has poor usability. As far as the desktop environment, I find most of linux window managers to be the more user-friendly than Windows and OS X.
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The thing with apple is that user experience isn't important to them. its an obsession.
Whilst clearly many people that frequent this site have ideological issues with them its not relevant to most people. They appreciate the attention to detail and the user experience.
I was wondering why firefox is so successful and Linux (relatively speaking in the home desktop market) isn't.
I guess if there was a linux distro that you could install without rebooting from windoze and had a migration manager AND automatically configured dual boot it might help. It would certainly reduce the technical barriers to adoption. Live CD's are a step in that direction but again how many people would use a live CD for home use?