LiveCDs rant
Posted: 18. Sep 2010, 10:10
Thanks for that, tried three times, and failed. Could not access the "startup guide", it did not appear.
Umm, for us octogenarians, you may wish to reconsider the REQUIREMENT, not option, to click (counterintuitively) TWICE on desktop icons, instead of the more reasonable, more logical, and more user friendly ONCE, as it ought to be.
In another fifty years, you will understand what I am trying to write. The hands become swollen, with arthritic damage, and the brain is not quite as sharp as it used to be, so those two "automatic" clicks of the mouse become an insurmountable obstacle.
What is that you hope to accomplish by imposing a REQUIREMENT to click twice?
a. show that you are a faithful Apple computer loyalist, who remembers fondly the early 1980's, when ALL mice had only ONE button, ergo, one was obliged to use a pattern, to signal the cpu (kind of like Paul Revere, before cellular telephones....)
or,
b. I dunno. I jus always done it that way. I didn know you could click only once.
Whichever choice is yours, it is the wrong one. Please change it, to allow SINGLE clicks at the start of business--> Those who insist on clicking twice will not suffer, while those impaired will at least be able to run the live CD. The cognoscenti will surely be skillful enough with the innards of Linux to modify the requirement to insist upon the user clicking twice, instead of the more intuitive once. That way they can enhance their infamous "security".
Apart from the nonsensical requirement to click twice, this distro is remarkably inscrutable for demanding that a user understand both the concept of login and password, together with the knowledge of both. This is a characteristic shared by some other distros, but not by any distro of significance. Probably the worst offender in this regard is PCLinuxOS, which places (correctly, from the illogical perspective of requiring both login and password to operate the cdrom) both login and passwords on the desktop, where they are visible to one and all.
But, if the login/password are so obvious, even a childish septuagenarian could install Salix. We wouldn't want that, now would we? (Plus, let us not forget all the pornographic stuff on this cdrom, which any child could access, if it became any easier to install....)
I will try again, now that you have revealed the secret passwords. Have any of you ever seen genuine BonSai? Ever been to Nippon, or ZhongGuo?
I urge you to think about the several thousand year old tradition of creating those gorgeous plants. Do you suppose that those folks engaged in that process are:
meticulous ?
careful ?
observant ?
planning ahead ?
thinking about interpretation ?
You bet. Does this suggest that before your next iteration, (and not one whole year later, as you proudly explain in your promo), some of the solutions to these issues will conform to the philosophy behind the proud tradition of the BonSai horticulturist?
I sincerely hope that your distro is not going to demand that a user employ n characters in creating the user id, or n characters for the password. (I haven't yet begun, but will, now that I know the secret password, so I will soon learn the answer to this question.)
That requirement, of course, would condemn this distro to the dustbin, along with MANY others, with a similarly stupid design. Let the user decide how many characters to use for his/her own login/password.
It is not YOUR computer. Let Salix permit the user to run his/her computer as the owner wishes. You wouldn't acquire a BonSai from someone who insisted on telling you what shape the plant would have to be, would you? Think about it. For whom is this OS intended?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... nity-3180/
CAI ENG
Umm, for us octogenarians, you may wish to reconsider the REQUIREMENT, not option, to click (counterintuitively) TWICE on desktop icons, instead of the more reasonable, more logical, and more user friendly ONCE, as it ought to be.
In another fifty years, you will understand what I am trying to write. The hands become swollen, with arthritic damage, and the brain is not quite as sharp as it used to be, so those two "automatic" clicks of the mouse become an insurmountable obstacle.
What is that you hope to accomplish by imposing a REQUIREMENT to click twice?
a. show that you are a faithful Apple computer loyalist, who remembers fondly the early 1980's, when ALL mice had only ONE button, ergo, one was obliged to use a pattern, to signal the cpu (kind of like Paul Revere, before cellular telephones....)
or,
b. I dunno. I jus always done it that way. I didn know you could click only once.
Whichever choice is yours, it is the wrong one. Please change it, to allow SINGLE clicks at the start of business--> Those who insist on clicking twice will not suffer, while those impaired will at least be able to run the live CD. The cognoscenti will surely be skillful enough with the innards of Linux to modify the requirement to insist upon the user clicking twice, instead of the more intuitive once. That way they can enhance their infamous "security".
Apart from the nonsensical requirement to click twice, this distro is remarkably inscrutable for demanding that a user understand both the concept of login and password, together with the knowledge of both. This is a characteristic shared by some other distros, but not by any distro of significance. Probably the worst offender in this regard is PCLinuxOS, which places (correctly, from the illogical perspective of requiring both login and password to operate the cdrom) both login and passwords on the desktop, where they are visible to one and all.
But, if the login/password are so obvious, even a childish septuagenarian could install Salix. We wouldn't want that, now would we? (Plus, let us not forget all the pornographic stuff on this cdrom, which any child could access, if it became any easier to install....)
I will try again, now that you have revealed the secret passwords. Have any of you ever seen genuine BonSai? Ever been to Nippon, or ZhongGuo?
I urge you to think about the several thousand year old tradition of creating those gorgeous plants. Do you suppose that those folks engaged in that process are:
meticulous ?
careful ?
observant ?
planning ahead ?
thinking about interpretation ?
You bet. Does this suggest that before your next iteration, (and not one whole year later, as you proudly explain in your promo), some of the solutions to these issues will conform to the philosophy behind the proud tradition of the BonSai horticulturist?
I sincerely hope that your distro is not going to demand that a user employ n characters in creating the user id, or n characters for the password. (I haven't yet begun, but will, now that I know the secret password, so I will soon learn the answer to this question.)
That requirement, of course, would condemn this distro to the dustbin, along with MANY others, with a similarly stupid design. Let the user decide how many characters to use for his/her own login/password.
It is not YOUR computer. Let Salix permit the user to run his/her computer as the owner wishes. You wouldn't acquire a BonSai from someone who insisted on telling you what shape the plant would have to be, would you? Think about it. For whom is this OS intended?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... nity-3180/
CAI ENG