[Sussex] RE: Linux and the Average User

[Richie Jarvis]

John D. wrote:

> 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".
>
Ah, but John, your no longer an 'average' user - someone who manages to 
use Linux the way you do cannot simply be an average user!