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> it's kind of unreasonable to claim something is unappealing because of a learning curve. It's not unreasonable at all. It all depends who is claiming that. C
by methyl 6y ago
> it's kind of unreasonable to claim something is unappealing because of a learning curve.
It's not unreasonable at all. It all depends who is claiming that. Consider Mac OS and compare it to any Linux in terms of the learning curve. Can my mother say that Linux is unappealing because it's to hard to learn it? Of course.
Even among engineers there are people to prefer just getting the stuff done without spending hours or weeks on configuring their environment (even if it could pay off).
- pjmlp 6y agoLike game developers, graphical developers, app developers, actually anyone selling desktop and mobile OS software. The domain still waiting for Desktop Linux to happen.
- kick 6y agoThe appealing features of whatever it is are still appealing despite the learning curve. To highlight what I object to, because I feel I may have come across ambiguously: Not much about all this setup feels appealing. The good features about, say, OS X, are not made less appealing because of the rest of OS X. They're still appealing properties.
- elbear 6y agoI think you're missing a variable: point of view. Give positive points to any feature you find appealing. Give negative points to any feature you find unappealing. If you have the person you're speaking to go through the same process, you might find you've assigned points differently. And the net sum might be closer to zero for them. That's what makes going through the entire process unappealing for them.
- kick 6y agoI'm not missing that variable; the comment you're replying to was explicitly written to try and clear up that I was not missing that variable.