[Gllug] Whinge

[Nix]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, will at hellacool.co.uk stipulated:
> From: "David Damerell" <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
>> >and it *is* easier to add new hardware on windows especially for
>> >novice users
>>
>> This is demonstrably false. I am not a novice Windows user and I live
>> with a professional Windows admin; yet my recent hardware change has
>> not been adequately resolved after four hours work and may yet require
>> reinstallation of the OS.
> 
> I don't see how it is demonstrably false.  When I have plugged kit into a
> windows machine it has generally worked, a lot of the time without actually
> having to install drivers.

I've had cases with Windows telling me that it has found three `Unknown
Devices', and could I insert the driver disk for the `Unknown
Device'. Even though it could have determined at least what *class* of
device this is (so I'd have known whether to insert a graphics card,
network card, or PIIX bridge driver disk, or something entirely else),
it didn't bother; or if it did, it didn't tell me, and there was no way
to coerce it to.

You can't call *that* good UI design.

-- 
`It's all about bossing computers around. Users have to say "please".
Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".'
                        -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming

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