Re: ESR : You Ignorant Lazy Moron :)

Posted Feb 27, 2004 17:32 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550)
In reply to: ESR : You Ignorant Lazy Moron :) by stock
Parent article: The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story (catb.org)

You spectacularly miss the point, which is about usability or otherwise of GUI interfaces.

Busy user has new Linux system. Has just typed document. Realizes no printer is set up. Would like to print his/her document to existing printer nearby on network. Looks round for printer setup GUI interface. Finds one almost immediately. Attempts to use, ends up in cactus as described in ESR article.

Of course they could RTFM. Getting the problem sorted via this route can easily take hours, even for users with technical nous. Has it occurred to you that 95+% of users, even Linux experts, might have better things to do with their time?

Calling busy users ignorant lazy morons is ignorant and moronic.