On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:51:51 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch
<erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The GUI tools for things like sharing printers or network drives just
> suck on Linux, largely because nobody uses them and thus they don't
> get the kind of scrutiny that they do under Windows.
Maybe that means they aren't needed.
For example, there's no GUI to attach a network printer to your client
workstation with CUPS, since it is automatic. There's no GUI to install
the network printer driver either, since you don't need one.
Similarly, with things like fish:// you don't need to do file sharing at
all to move files around, which is all anyone really uses peer-to-peer
file sharing for anyway.
> Suppose joe users last job introduced him to Linux, and they used KDE.
> His next job uses Gnome. How productive will he be?
Oh, the horror! That would of course never happen with Windows, what
with all versions having exactly the same UI and the entire world always
upgrading in unison. And it is impossible for a user to have Windows on
one job but a Mac at the next.
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-| Bob Hauck
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