Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:05:26 -0800 (PST) | | From | "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <> | | Subject | Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? |
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and that user will never > use them. The average user you are targetting says: 'daddy, buy me a PC to > run Quake and do my school jobs' or 'please, dear vendor, I want a PC to > do my housekeeping'. I have seen so many cases (A buys PC, A tries to run > brand new racing game that does not work, A goes shop and says: don't know > what's wrong with this PC, look at it and call me when MyCarRacingGame > works...).
Yup. Dummies dont need things to be done for them; they need to learn how to do it themselves. That, IMO, is the beauty of UNIX. Nothing is sugar coated, and almost everything gets back down to the K.I.S.S. approach.
> Average users you are targetting with that automagical > card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just > want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI > and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some docs and > rebuild a kernel.
Amen! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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