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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
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"For a lot of things, one still needs to open terminal and do things manually, which is something not acceptable for an ordinary user."

Hmm.. I might be wrong but I don't remember having to open up a terminal to use the n800 as Nokia had intended. Now if I wanted to install applications that developers didn't put in extras or needed to pull a dependency. Or to turn on swap or clone my disk then yes I would need the terminal. But again that's not within what Nokia originally intended the device to do.

You are going to have that problem no matter what Nokia does however. Because the people pushing the device to the limits don't care if you can easily follow them or not. If you want to follow them, then you will learn. If not, then just use the device as Nokia intended. And yes that's not user friendly, but not every developer cares to take out the time to make their installation or port user friendly for people.

But things like the user interface of say the n900 I do agree could be more user friendly.
If they didn't intend the users to use the terminal, they should have left it out, like Android did, right?
On the other hand, it is true that most users are quite happy with the way things are now, and have no need to do anything with the terminal.
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