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GNU/Linux is user-friendly - and logical too
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| That's why people can reconcile themselves to using an operating system where
| you click on Start in order to shut the system down.
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| [...]
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| Once again, I don't know what distribution refused to communicate with Davey.
| Every time I put in an USB key in my AMD64 box, a little dialgoue box pops up
| asking me what I would like to do and giving me three or four choices. When I
| pop in a DVD, VLC comes up and plays it. Let me be honest, I would much
| rather do this manually but that's the control freak in me speaking.
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| There is an impression that Windows comes configured out of the box to do
| many things. As someone who is called on to build grey boxes twice or thrice
| a year and install and configure Windows for friends, let me assure you that
| this is far from the truth.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21543/1148/
Kelsey Bjarnason and Peter Köhlmann wrote some good posts about this too.
Related:
Usability in Open Source Software
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| Celeste Lyn Paul is Senior Interaction Architect for User-Centered Design,
| Inc., organizes the KDE Usability Project, and works with open source
| projects such as KDE, Linux Foundation, OpenUsability, and Ubuntu.
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http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/2008/february/usability-open-source.html
Looking Back on Three Years of OpenUsability with Jan Mühlig
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| The Season of Usability, which Ellen initiated, which thus far
| has been very successful is a clear sign that we are on the
| right track. The other important thing coming up will be to
| launching the new OpenUsability platform which should very
| much ease collaboration.
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http://dot.kde.org/1164982554/
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