Re: [9fans] what a surprise

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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I've been trying to think of ways to evangelize rio and acme.  It's a  
tough sell - there is no "new user" subset.
In particular, to be at all effective with rio (and especially acme)  
you need to be a capable command-line user and understand how to  
compose those primitives.  This means that no beginner will be able  
to pick up our beloved interface and get work done, even after giving  
them the 3-button low-down.  There just aren't any training wheels,  
and these days even expert users use the training wheels when in  
parts of the system they aren't familiar with.

I think it's a losing battle.

Paul



On May 4, 2007, at 12:17 PM, ron minnich wrote:

> "It looks like more issues with  Vista drains notebook batteries.
> Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life.
> "
>
> amazing. You build up a cpu-hungry interface and it is ... cpu hungry.
> Ah, what a shock.
>
> I keep touting the rio 'stone age GUI' to people, showing them my
> laptop with linux and rio, but they do want their pretty pictures.
>
> ron

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