Why cant linux be user friendly?

[milomak]

it's not not user friendly. it's just not windows. so you have to learn new ways of doing things. if you aren't open to learning new things then perhaps it is not for you.

what might be a close analogy is people who move to Office 2007 and find it difficult. It may or may not be that office 2007 is not user friendly, it is that yuo have to change the habits you have been used to.

So yeah, give it a try with an open mind and where you are willing to learn new things. If it still doesn't do it for you, then maybe leave it aside.

plenty of us find it user friendly enough.
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[boramk]

Why cant linux be user friendly?

That would defeat the whole purpose of Open Source

 

[Project X]

That would defeat the whole purpose of Open Source

So since its free they make us pay by making it unusable?
Look guys lets please be honest here linux is just complicated and i just want to understand why...
Im surprised you dont need a code to click on start and what about people who dont have internet,How are they going to get it to run?

 

[Project X]

it's not not user friendly. it's just not windows. so you have to learn new ways of doing things. if you aren't open to learning new things then perhaps it is not for you.

what might be a close analogy is people who move to Office 2007 and find it difficult. It may or may not be that office 2007 is not user friendly, it is that yuo have to change the habits you have been used to.

So yeah, give it a try with an open mind and where you are willing to learn new things. If it still doesn't do it for you, then maybe leave it aside.

plenty of us find it user friendly enough.
t

Ok let me put it like this....
I want to install something... Now whats easier
Windows
step1) Double click ,next next finish

step2) enjoy
or
Linux
step1) sudo;11fhf, dxd divine... Install, set
mRRt,h20,co2...giga..tom..My glasses are broken i cant see.. blaah blah blah

step 2) open kernel something something click advanced (get ready to enter another code)

step3) Sudo fiesty'rotate me'iopen%#$52Source%$@$3Why the hell am i doing this8&**77My back i sore*&^88

step 4) '' Error!!! you need internet connection who do you think you are trying to get something to run that easy?''

 

[d0b33]

Linux
step1) sudo;11fhf, dxd divine... Install, set
mRRt,h20,co2...giga..tom..My glasses are broken i cant see.. blaah blah blah

step 2) open kernel something something click advanced (get ready to enter another code)

step3) Sudo fiesty'rotate me'iopen%#$52Source%$@$3Why the hell am i doing this8&**77My back i sore*&^88

step 4) '' Error!!! you need internet connection who do you think you are trying to get something to run that easy?''

Not necessarily...

Open program repository> tick box next to application> Accept, done, enjoy.

 

[milomak]

Have you never used a Package Manager in Linux

File --> Applications --> System --> Synaptic
Search for package name and press enter
Package name appears and then you click and press Install.
Package install.

Granted that there are areas where it is more difficult than this. But for maybe 95%+ off packages can be easily handled that way.

As for the internet part, can you update Windows without internet?

 

[Project X]

Have you never used a Package Manager in Linux

File --> Applications --> System --> Synaptic
Search for package name and press enter
Package name appears and then you click and press Install.
Package install.

Granted that there are areas where it is more difficult than this. But for maybe 95%+ off packages can be easily handled that way.

As for the internet part, can you update Windows without internet?

But you dont need internet to install nVidia drivers.. and You mostly update windows for security reasons right

 

[milomak]

you are right they come with the disk. I don't know whether Linux magazines come with things like nvidia drivers on them. The same issue would be solved if nVidia and ATI included linux drivers on the card CD/DVD.

But they don't so that's our lot.