[Sussex] RE: Linux and the Average User

[John D.]

I suspect that lots of you on the list have missed the "User" bit.

Users don't want to have to configure anything. They just "want it too 
work". Not too spend hours/days/weeks (in my case years), trying to 
learn how something works, just too get it to "go"!

The main reason I'm here in the first place, is because I want to "use" 
my pc, but I don't want to have to use it with MS products. For me, it's 
a social/ethical/moral problem. If the rest of the world wants to remain 
hypnotised by Gates and MS, well thats surely their choice.

Hence, my biggest "soapbox subject" being documentation. Most of "you 
lot" have considerable levels of IT knowledge, which too me, suggest not 
needing instructions/howtos/etc being written in "plain" English, but 
for me, it's the opposite.

So I'll continue to say that you shouldn't substitute enthusiast with 
"User".

regards

John D.