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Sunday, April 25, 2004

PC-Phobia--Would a New GUI Paradigm Help?

Linux Today: "What's so hard about using a PC? This question is valid for all popular operating systems, not just Linux, because with few exceptions, all of these systems use pretty much the same GUI concept: window, menu, dialog box. There are variations of a theme between all of the OSs, and within the desktop environments and window managers of the *Nix family, but essentially that's what they all use ... The desktop model assumes that people know how to use a real-world desktop. I look at my desktop here at the office and I don't even think I qualify for that ... But making the GUI more intuitive could be one way to lessen ... resistance. This is a question that the open source community should really try to answer, as a breakthrough here could lead to better acceptance of OSS and PCs in general."

Again, it's always nice to see people coming around to an opinion you've had for quite a while. Quite obviously, the desktop paradigm is broken, and unwieldy in a world of 160 GB hard drives and 3 GHz processors.

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