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Try talking Grandma over the phone to help her share her photo directory with Aunt Jeanine, on the same PC. No command line allowed, and you know she can only f
by vntok 7y ago
Try talking Grandma over the phone to help her share her photo directory with Aunt Jeanine, on the same PC. No command line allowed, and you know she can only focus on that type of task for 4, maybe 5 minutes top.
- ptx 7y agoI can't imagine any system where you'd have a good chance of succeeding in that scenario without some kind of remote administration tool. Remote controlling a user over the phone is difficult, unreliable and time-consuming.
- lallysingh 7y ago.. install remote admin tool? Gotomypc etc? Or just tell them to copy it to a USB stick. Yep, same machine, it's still the best answer.
- t0astbread 7y agoShare? Google Drive. Or email. Both of which are equally good/bad to explain to grandma on Windows and Linux.
- userbinator 7y agoNo command line allowed It's easier to tell someone what keys to press than to find and manipulate UI elements. on the same PC On a PC, everyone already has access by default, so "sharing" doesn't involve anything additional.
- mhd 7y agoThat wouldn't work reliably under Windows, either, as nobody knows anything about files and directories generically anymore. (That's the reason why first the Windows explorer was suddenly sufficent enough and then almost completely disregarded) A public folder on the same PC is way harder to explain than just telling your photo app to share it with your resident spying company/cloud provider, despite how wasteful the round trip is. Not that that has anything to do with a discussion about the "unix way" as a special case or even superset of IDEs.
- darkmighty 7y agoMy mother can't reliably remember how to operate the remote control but uses linux just fine (browsing, editing text documents, etc).
- SahAssar 7y agoI think you're confusing easy and simple. Windows is easier (for most people), but linux is certainly simpler.