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completely agree with you. I dont think people are saying they want the n810 to "just work" in terms of having a working msn prinstalled. an amazing vid/audio prog, or whatever. I think people just hate having to jump through hoops to get a simple application like msn on there. seriously though, I knew nothing about Linux going in to this, im amazed at how much I've done with the n810 trying to upgrade, install and whatever, proud of myself for being able to learn all that, but LOLing at the fact that I actually had to do all that.

Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
In response to the concept of "just works". Just works is one of those irritating terms that people often use. To me it depends on how far narrow-band on broad-band you go.

For example, just-works can be applied to any ecosystem (Windows, Linux, OSX). Take the default unit, use whatever defaults are given to you. Given those rules, most systems will just work unless the system is designed to be on the bleeding edge (Fedora or Debian). Similarly, Maemo just works in this case. If you stick to the defaults (like extras) then you shouldn't have many problems at all. It's when you start adding repos that you introduce problems.

The iPhone is commonly seen as something that 'just-works' and indeed it's true if your sticking to Apple's rules. But even then not all software you install just works. And if you want to go against what Apple has said (perhaps to install an application that Apple has rejected) then your introducing problems that may or may not cause problems.

So just-works is something each user defines. For myself, my computers go through periods of where things just-works, then periods of things just-not working (my girlfriend gets annoyed at these times), and back to periods of just-working again.