Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

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begin Jon Biddell quotation:

> For you, me and most of SLUG, yes...
> 
> For the weenies out there who *think* they need a computer, unfortunately
> no...

This is not true. The actual Linux system is very hard - the desktops are
not. Certainly, some tweaking is required, and the kind of awareness of
usability issues that runs through GNOME will assist third party developers
to write good, usable software.

When it comes to a business environment, and plonking someone down in front
of a machine to 'do work', any one of these three systems is appropriate.
You simply need buttons to make applications start.

Windows has blinkered people into believing that its massive conceptual
inefficiencies are required to perform tasks on any computer. That's the
first mistake people make. The second can be argued thusly:

  WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES YOU THINK WINDOWS IS EASY TO USE?

It's not. It's just there a lot.

- ii

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