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"Platform of the Future": Shuttleworth's Comments
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paed...-keynote.ars/2
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Why does a desktop have to be "beautiful"? What constitutes "beautiful"? How does anyone define "functionality"? Sometimes, I think the statement that "Linux is for people who hate Windows..." is quite true, especially when you see Linux leaders embarrassing themselves.
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You may be reading the word "beautiful" too literally.
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Nevertheless, certain segments of society will be entertained by these contrivances, & more importantly, they may give newbies the sense of interaction & accomplishment with their computer while displacing apprehension with enjoyment. This is important to them, & there isn't any reason that I should take it away from them. ...but it isn't so important to me. My needs are different & I hope that there will always be some solution which is more in alignment with the way I work. Sometimes small is beautiful as is stability, flexibility, & simplicity -- all things that many people off the street will not readily identify. Because of all these factors, I don't believe that one universal operating system will be the answer to all problems. Diversity is just as good for the marketplace as it is to genetics. Quote:
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The future is OpenBSD, personally I dream of a future where people learn to appreciate the genius and sophistication of a command line interface.
Sadly, the 2006 movie Idiocracy is where we're actually heading.. |
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Years ago someone told me to always remember that the computer is just a big calculator. He was right and I fought it when someone asked me if they should get a computer. One of my big regrets in raising my kids was giving them a cheap one to play games on. My thought was it would get them interested in programming or electronics. It did but, when they found out how long it took to create anything, they lost interest, sadly.
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I'll have to agree with drhowarddrfine. I started my daughter using a computer at 4 or 5 with KDE. And she caught on quickly. Then I got her her own PC and thought she would soon want to start programming or making web pages. When she did become interested in making a web page and saw on the work she lost interest.
Years later she began playing the Morrowind RPG on the PC. And she ask how do they make these types of games. I attempted to show her the construction set that allows you to create add on modules and such - again to complicated and lost interest. It's said to say but, I feel with all the point and click GUI stuff is making the younger (and why do I feel old now...ok so i did use punch cards in 9th grade) generations are too lazy to learn anything beyond 3 or 4 clicks. Unless it's totally useless like myspace or facebook. Sometimes I think the unabomber's manifesto was correct.
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scottro, were you there when he said it?
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a) not everyone's interested in what we do
b) throwing someone in the "deep end" is a sure way to turn them off c) youth, by definition, is wasted. If it wasn't, we probably wouldn't be as productive as we are now Some people take a liking to this naturally no matter what their entrance vector- this is rare. More stumble into it with some surface-level interaction, and think, "This is neat, I'd like to learn more." Most don't want to get into it all... and personally, that's job security for you and me , so don't knock it. Personally I think sticking your "average" kid with a low-grade 10 year old computer is a sure way to turn them off to both programming/system-administration and computers in general. There's too many other "cool" distractions for them to blow their time on. My whole introduction to this 'world' was Disney World. I was fortunate enough as a kid to live a few miles away, and when it was still relatively inexpensive to go. Seeing all the robotic stuff and fantasy, I thought, "How'd they do it?" Once a kid becomes interested in how it works... watch out!
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> throwing someone in the "deep end" is a sure way to turn them off
i think you are right about that. > that's job security for you and me good point > Some people take a liking to this naturally no matter what their entrance vector- this is rare. they are the computer gurus in the making. Last edited by ephemera; 4th August 2008 at 05:39 PM. |
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Hello,
With today's Desktop Environments and Window Managers, the desktop can be made to look identical to Windows, Mac OS X, or anything else. There are so many themes, wallpapers, etc. out there that with a few clicks the computer can be made to look however the user wants it to. So, how does the "not as beautiful as ... " even compute today?
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