Re: Flame Bait! Windows vs: The Unices

From: Willem (willem_at_stack.nl)
Date: 01/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:29:26 +0000 (UTC)

Programmer Dude wrote:
) Willem wrote:
)> I disagree. Experience in using computers makes you unable to
)> judge what an 'intuitive' interface is.
)
) That is certainly possible, but it doesn't explain why the Mac
) presented such an almost impossible UI when I'm normally used
) to picking these things up very rapidly. I mean, I have worked
) on a variety of systems--hardware and software--with a variety
) of UI designs. Typically, they come quickly. With the Mac, I
) couldn't even guess where to begin.

That could be because the Mac is the only UI that's designed to be used
intuitively by people who have no experience with computers whatsoever.

)> From the experiences I have had with people who know nothing of
)> computers, but just want to use them (graphic designers, artists,
)> etc.) they found Macs a lot easier to use than PCs with windows.
)
) Doesn't surprise me, but easIER isn't the same as easy.

So ? You were saying that Macs were so hard for you to get used to.
I'm saying that's because you're used to the UI design shared by MS-windows
and most unix window managing systems and programs.

) You might be surprised. Excel is one of those tools that even
) average people can get some very powerful use out of.
)
) But then, did you mean average *computer* user or average *Excel*
) user?

Given that most people have dabbled in excel once or twice, I'd guess I
meant the average computer user.

)>> The fact that ancient Greek comedies are still funny today tells
)>> me that people haven't changed much in 4000 years.
)>
)> The fact that in a lot of ancient societies the people almost
)> exclusively drank alcoholic beverages, children included, tells
)> me otherwise.
)
) Huh?

People have changed a lot.
Nowadays, it's bad for children to drink alcohol, for example.

Besides, I think I once read a study claiming that today's children don't
laugh at Chaplin anymore, although they *do* laugh at Laurel&Hardy.
(Or was that tha Marx brothers vs. the Stooges.. can't remember..)

SaSW, Willem 

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            drugged or something..
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