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At this point, I don't even know what "user friendly" means.

• noir_lord 11y ago
  user friendly - designed to aid the user in doing whatever task they are doing. The software for making a photo collage for Grandma and the software for controlling replication across a hundred database nodes can be radically different and still be user friendly. Lots of software tends to assume that the user is a new user but the problem then is that a new user rapidly becomes a not-new user and those things that helped initially now hamper productivity (cough Clippy cough). I'm not saying everyone should have a Symbolics terminal and that requiring lisp knowledge should be mandatory so much as lots of people say open source isn't "user friendly" when what they mean is it's not particularly friendly to new/inexperience users coming from outside. http://rippedwire.sourceforge.net/images/hbgtk-video.jpg http://rippedwire.sourceforge.net/images/hbgtk-video.jpg for example, to a new user that is very unfriendly but if you use it frequently and or understand what you are trying to do that kind of no-nonsense interface is user friendly.