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Whether you call it hostile or unintuitive, or something else, it's a fact. Unless you're in the field you want to fire up an app, do what the title/description
by Spearchucker 12y ago
Whether you call it hostile or unintuitive, or something else, it's a fact. Unless you're in the field you want to fire up an app, do what the title/description has set in terms of expectation and, if you're the kind that needs it, slowly begin to discover and learn the advanced features.
Starting an app and needing to spend half an hour in documentation is not how to sell it. No matter how good the documentation is. Someone else made the same tool that's a lot easier to use, and that's what the users migrate to.
- dredmorbius 12y agoThere are Linux tools which are optimized toward easy use. If it's editing you want, there are are equivalents of Windows Notepad AND HAVE BEEN FROM VERY EARLY ON. xedit, nedit, kedit, gedit, and more, are all basic GUI text editors. nano (and pico) are very basic console editors aimed at basic users. The point about vim and emacs is that they're not fundamental editors (though learning the basics is quick), they're very powerful performance tools. The problem with tools that don't offer advanced features is that you bang into their limitations very, very quickly. They lack automation, they lack the ability to perform large tasks quickly. And the problem with proprietary tools is that they are limited in availability: they're online-only, or limited to a specific OS, or, worst of all: they company folds and the tools become unsupported and/or unavailable.