User Friendly?

Started: 2002-08-26 19:57:05

Submitted: 2002-08-26 19:59:14

Visibility: World-readable

Having rejected DOS, we're paranoid about anything that isn't "user-friendly," that requires some adjustment on our part and a commitment to meet the technology halfway. It's as if Henry Ford rigged a bridle and set of leather reins to his Model T instead of a steering wheel and clutch, and to this day we were still driving our cars the way a 19th century groomsman would handle a horse and buggy.

Jonathon Keats, "You Send Me" by Patricia T. O'Conner & Stewart Kellerman, Salon.com.

That's why I use Linux. I don't pretend that my interface is easy for a newbie, but it works great for me, so I use it.