The_pantless_hero wrote:Cannot think of a name wrote:You have to understand his mindset, here. For him, there is only one proper tool for everyone to use, and that's the one he's using. Anyone using any other tool is a 'fanboy' who is either too stupid to realize they should be using the tool he is, being duped, tricked, or suckling at the teat of whoever is the figurehead of that tool. Clearly. No one can have different needs, abilities, willingness to invest time and money into something, comfort levels, etc. No no, if they're using something he's deemed 'inferior' it is a plot of either intellect or corporate conspiracy.
Since you people are obviously too dense to understand what I was getting at, the point was that telling a person to use console commands to change away from using a console based text editor as a default doesn't fix the inherent problem of CONSOLES NOT BEING FRIENDLY TO CASUAL USERS.
Then CASUAL USERS SHOULD NOT GO TO THE CONSOLE. If it's really that important to them, they can either swallow their revulsion and learn to use it, or try an alternative GUI solution that are increasingly the norm in Linux systems. My mother is technophobic, so I set her up with a computer that never requires her to do anything but turn it on and launch a browser to do what she wants. She hasn't needed to enter the console or fix the machine in the past eighteen months, so I call it an unqualified success.
The_pantless_hero wrote:Cannot think of a name wrote:Now, this might be confusing, because he so often applies the moniker, "Fanboy." And you might think, "Wouldn't a fanboy be someone who tirelessly flaps on about their chosen preference and lashes out at other's choices to irrational degrees...doesn't that sound more like..." Well, yes, it does. But sometimes when people are in the eye of their own personal hurricane, they cannot see their own storm.
I have YET to see anyone point out what I am a fanboy of yet they keep accusing me of it, even after asking them to. Repeatedly.
So what exactly am I a fanboy of? User friendly program? If only everyone was!
You seem to be insisting that the Microsoft Way is the Best Way, at least for casual users. Which then brings me back to my earlier point.