[linux-audio-user] Opening up the discussion

[Christoph Eckert]

> That is the point, I absolutely dont feel reading up on
> something is necessarily a bad thing.  My hair stand up if
> I watch a typical no-clue windows user more or less
> randomly hitting buttons in the interface until "something"
> works.  I do feel this "it has to work out of the box
> without me having to know anything about it" attitude is
> childish.

There are two different things we should divide. There are 
users who simply have no idea what they want to do. This is 
the type you mentioned above and you're right.

OTOH, there are users who already have knowledge about a 
certain task. These users will first try explore the UI 
before reading docs.

Be honest: Do you read documentation when trying out a new 
webbrowser or text processor? Certainly not. You know what 
these tools are for, and you know how to deal with text 
processors or web browsers.

The latter one is the target group we're discussing. Users who 
already know about audio, audio synthesis and audio 
processing.


Best regards


    ce