[Gllug] On Linux desktops...

[Bruce Richardson]

On 10/17/01, 3:26:13 PM, "Richard Cottrill" <richard_c at tpg.com.au> wrote 
regarding RE: [Gllug] On Linux desktops...:

> I could go on but I'll spare you more. The point is that emacs is 
actually a
> great example of a bad interface, and the fact that it is the oldest
> GNU/free software and it still has such an appalling interface only 
serves
> to prove Nielsen's point.

I'm not sure that it's even relevant.  If Neilsen meant that UNIX can't 
be made usable in the same way Windows is usable, then he was talking 
crap: you can today have a GUI interface every bit as pointy and clicky 
and configure almost every aspect of your system.  If he meant that it is 
difficult to make UNIX's uniquely powerful features accessible to the 
non-geek then he has a point but not the earth-shattering one some people 
seem to think.

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Bruce

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