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True. A tutorial other than two screens at the beginning would have saved a lot of hassle. I learnt a lot of shortcuts through Yash Tolia's blog. Regarding prog
by iamshs 13y ago
True. A tutorial other than two screens at the beginning would have saved a lot of hassle. I learnt a lot of shortcuts through Yash Tolia's blog. Regarding programs, every program installed leaves a clutter of things on the Start Screen, that is one major annoyance for me too. Among the main shortcut will be, read me's and other nonsense.
- wvenable 13y agoIf you need a tutorial, you've already lost.
- iamshs 13y agoWhat is this kind of thinking? Really? It is better than fiddling around. Let me not read books/manuals on how to make iOS apps, general relativity, and how to set cruise control on KIA Forte since wvenable says I have already lost. There is an adaptability curve, and it is important to list all the improvements in one place through a tutorial rather than finding new things after two months of using OS in old way.
- wvenable 13y agoYou might need a tutorial to build a nuclear reactor but you shouldn't need a tutorial just to launch applications on a desktop OS that has been around for 20 years.
- freehunter 13y agoIf I need a tutorial for your web app, then it was poorly designed. If I need a tutorial for your OS, the freaking give me one! You can't say that an OS is naturally an intuitive thing to use. If it's fully-featured, it's going to either include so many things that you're going to need to know how to access in a specific way or it ends up being KDE, giving you a button and shortcut for everything until your eyes cross.
- wvenable 13y agoAn OS is a naturally intuitive thing to use if you've been using one (the same one) for 20 years. People are adaptable but you can't just throw them off a cliff.
- freehunter 13y agoThat's not intuitive, that's just familiarity. Intuitive means someone who has never seen it before can pick it up and go without too much training.
- wvenable 13y agoWindows 8 fails at being intuitive and it fails at being familiar.
- drharris 13y agoIt passes the 3-year-old test better than Windows 7, in a personal experiment. My son knew exactly how to tap an icon to open a game he wanted. He does not understand a mouse or keyboard, really, other than knowing what the letters are and that the mouse makes an arrow move. I would say it succeeds at being intuitive, and fails at being familiar. Most learned people can't separate the two.