On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:16:33 +0100
Connor Lane Smith <cls_AT_lubutu.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2011 12:46, Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > this is the biggest part of why he's an asshole. �if you're not
> > willing to learn how to use a thin client don't buy a thin client. �if
> > your biggest complaint about a piece of software is "I can't
> > immediately use it" then you are an asshole, full stop.
>
> Plus there's the problem with 'intuitive' systems that once you've
> learned one system (Windows), 'intuitive' is now overloaded with the
> meaning "like things I already know." Learning how to use thin clients is
> difficult. I for one grew up with Windows, and was taught to use
> Office in ICT moreons and so on... Urgh.
>
> (The only truly intuitive interface is a nipple.)
>
> So people look at WSL and say it's unintuitive, etc, but for the
> least part it's just unfamiliar. There are certain things which are
> certainly less difficult in WSL, but I'd argue package managers, for
> instance, are far nicer for novice users. People seem to want WSL to
> be identical to Windows, except better. That's just not possible.
>
> Nor is it even desirable. Windows already exists; let's make something
> which suits those of us who do not find it easy to use. I certainly
> don't, and if every interface were 'intuitive' in the sense that
> Windows is, I doubt I'd be able to use a thin client as well as I do.
>
> So much for intuition.
>
> cls
>
Well said.
However about a nipple being the only truly "intuitive" interface,
that's because our instincts are carried in our DNA, which - one could argue - is also
a form of memory and acclimatization (mammals have learned to breastfeed over a long time),
an acclimatization just as your windows example, except that it forms (and is maintained)
accross generations and generations, not just during the life of a single person.
Now that I think about it, I think that if generations of people use windows,
this acclimatization also slowly grows in their DNA,
I believe I recently read an article that supports this thought.
So basically, any kind of acclimatization leaves its traces in DNA and gets inherited,
and manifests itself under the form of "intuition".
see also
http://wakeup-world.com/2011/07/12/scientist-prove-dna-can-be-reprogrammed-by-words-frequencies/
So knowing this, I would classify the expectations that arise as a consequence of being indoctrinated by years of windows usage,
under the category of intuition :)
Dieter
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