Thread: "Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where’s the magic? "
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Modell900 is offline Modell900
2010-01-30 , 20:39
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If you do one thing over and over again, then an intuitive UI with informative notes is unnecessary, but to classify those of us who have to use multiple systems with multiple applications to accomplish various tasks as "average users" is demeaning. A good UI benefits users at all levels.

Your attitude is the reason that even IT professionals (like myself) tend to leave Linux for their Apache and MySQL servers. For day to day computing the Windows or Mac UIs and applications are more productive because of things like "informative notes".
I think it came out the "wrong way" (not native english speaking person behind the keyboard here)

Well since the topic was Ipad and magic, I took it as the "magic" was how easy people started liking appleīs approach to UI design on mobile devices and how tons of people around me repeats all day long "damn itīs so easy and understandable, itīs just amazing" compared to me ranting how nice it is it is with X-Terminal and all the tweaking that can be done, they just see "the magic".

My intention was in no way meant to sound demeaning and I would say itīs a far stretch to call any normal random Linux skilled person "average users" when it comes to computer skills

Pretty sure you would beat my tiny skills easy but Iīm a quick learner haha!

So sorry if it came out that way.
Itīs hard sometimes to express oneself sometimes and things get missread due to crippled language skills.