4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
7:02 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:36:15 -0500
Thomas Vecchione <seablaede(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Andrew C
<countfuzzball(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I think we're leaving the "how linux audio could be more user friendly"
topic in favor of the "how linux could be more user friendly" - which
is not bad, just saying.
I allready stated more or less this, but I'd like to say it again, in
other words. If I wanted a user friendly OS, I wouldn't be using linux,
but probably OSX. There's a monetary cost for that, but OTOH linux and
more in general open source software involves a larger "time" cost,
time spent reading documentation etc. There's a tradeoff there.
I think many people here, like me, prefer to invest time in open source
software rather than money AND time (though less) in closed source
software.
The way I feel is that we really shouln't invest too much time and
energy with users who won't learn how to do such an easy thing as using
a terminal (just google "linux using terminal").
What does the community gain in having such people use linux?
cheers
renato
Command line isn't not n00b friendly, just merely a different way of
accessing applications and managing the system. Might sound stupidly
elitist and like 'the cancer that's killing linux audio', but you
can't expect to run and use a linux or any other unix based OS
without using the CLI once or twice IMHO. Whereas windows gives you
the ability to do everything with a mouse and a GUI, linux gives
you the choice of either using a GUI to run the app or launching it
via a terminal.
OS X, a unix based OS, would tend to disagree with you. And has done
a fairly successful job doing so at that. The majority of the time
that it is easier to troubleshoot something on #ardour-osx by using
the console output, or using the terminal to enter a command, I have
to tell users exactly how to get to the terminal, many of them don't
even know it exists.
Seablade