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<blockquote data-quote="mazskolnieces" data-source="post: 911573" data-attributes="member: 88422">The answer is not software design to make things easier. The answer lies in the human&#039;s willingness to put forth the effort. That is not acceptable if you want success beyond a very tiny niche. Any software that caters to a tiny minority of all users is considered a dismal failure, and rightly so in terms of dollars and cents. But it is an alternate solution that will appeal to just enough people to keep it alive with a single heartbeat per minute.Mindless zero-cost ease-of-use shall always prevail. Linux&#039;s problem is that it is not mindless and it is not easy to use. My notion about this is that the more humans that you keep from using something, the better that something is. People are always the problem. Always. You cannot design anything that will eliminate the problem of the user sitting in front of the computer. it is better to require the human to put forth effort to gain the knowledge that they need instead of making them utterly brain-dead dependent upon a software that will not keep pace with change - and ultimately fail the user at the moment of truth.I don&#039;t mean something that attracts zero users because it is so difficult to use. I mean soemthing with a superior design that appeals to the user who is going to put forth the effort. Users that are willing to put forth the effort in the consumer space are a tiny minority. That makes Linux desktop an utter failure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mazskolnieces, post: 911573, member: 88422"] The answer is not software design to make things easier. The answer lies in the human's willingness to put forth the effort. That is not acceptable if you want success beyond a very tiny niche. Any software that caters to a tiny minority of all users is considered a dismal failure, and rightly so in terms of dollars and cents. But it is an alternate solution that will appeal to just enough people to keep it alive with a single heartbeat per minute. Mindless zero-cost ease-of-use shall always prevail. Linux's problem is that it is not mindless and it is not easy to use. My notion about this is that the more humans that you keep from using something, the better that something is. People are always the problem. Always. You cannot design anything that will eliminate the problem of the user sitting in front of the computer. it is better to require the human to put forth effort to gain the knowledge that they need instead of making them utterly brain-dead dependent upon a software that will not keep pace with change - and ultimately fail the user at the moment of truth. I don't mean something that attracts zero users because it is so difficult to use. I mean soemthing with a superior design that appeals to the user who is going to put forth the effort. Users that are willing to put forth the effort in the consumer space are a tiny minority. That makes Linux desktop an utter failure. [/QUOTE]

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