system-config-users 1.2.39 broken?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:58 +0800, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"
wrote:
> One of the reasons why Windoze users are so hesitant about switching to
> Linux is that they fear having to use the command line.  If Linux is to
> win users over, it'd have to go the GUI way.  Let me tell U a story. 
> More than ten years ago, I was using WordPerfect 5.0 and a uni mate was
> using MS Word.  I thought that I was smarter as WordPerfect was much
> harder use, whereas MS Word was merely a matter of point-and-click.  The
> fact is, my uni mate could churn out a piece of work in a fraction of
> the time that I could, even though she was what we called, a "computer
> illiterate".
> 
> Personally, I think that doing things the GUI way is more efficient. 
> There's this package that I use everyday that requires me to compile a
> source rpm everytime I upgrade the kernel, and anytime I need to use it,
> I have to key in a very long command.  Now, wouldn't a GUI version be
> simpler and more efficient for the user?
> 
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The problems with your assumptions are:

Linux isn't interested in obtaining wholesale switchovers from Windows
to Linux OS's. That's a common misconception that many Windows users
make. Linux is it's own operating system without a commercial bent and
thus no need to keep selling the same thing over and over again to the
same people.

There are some distributions that are interested in selling their
packaging against the Windows packaging and this list doesn't have
anything to do with that - fedora is a free distribution.

For some things, GUI is a more efficient way of doing them. For other
things, you can't beat the power of the command line. The problem of
course is the knowledge of when and how and between Macintosh and
Windows, there's a lot of computer users that have little interest,
little reason to garner up the knowledge of things to get up and running
and thus rely on setup wizards. Most of the Linux distributions aren't
quite up to the level of Windows wizards. For other users, i.e. the ones
that aren't afraid to learn some of the inner workings of a computer,
once they get over their fear of something different, like Linux, a
majority of them will appreciate the education they get, finally
figuring out how things are supposed to work and the ability to fix
things without 'reboot' or 'dump and reload' philosophy which is so
prevalent with Windows usage because of the various inaccessible
internals.

Craig


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