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Re: [TCLUG:12254] Developmental Linux
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:59:47PM -0600, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
>
> Actually, I've thought of trying to create a distribution that
> was exclusively focused on the user experience. I was going to call
> it Kansei Linux after the use of the term in the book "Tog on Software
> Design".
>
> I doubt it would interest many people here though since it would
> always make choices in favor of usability. It would recognize that
> usability is not a perjorative, and user-friendly is not code for
> making sure that even an idiot can use it.
I just realized I might be starting a flame war.
I did not mean the above as a slam on the people here. I just
notice that people here seem to be largely interested in the technical
issues of getting a Linux install working, which is fine. An OS that
doesn't work isn't an OS at all. And I have noticed interest in
usability and people not using it as a perjorative, it just doesn't seem
to be the focus.
Have fun (if at all possible),
--
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything.
Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul. ---Mark Twain
-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --
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