[MPlayer-users] 42 was: Comments on Joe Barrs MPlayer critizism

[Thomas Prokosch]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:44:32PM +0100, gabor farkas wrote:
> i thought everyone agrees on that linux should made more user friendly...
> and now i see not everyone thinks that.... maybe this is because of my 
> windows past... but for me it looks so simple:
> 
> more user-friendly system=> more users=> more companies release drivers for 
> linux => better linux.

In my opinion:

more user-friendly system -> more dumb users not reading TFM
                          -> more noise on the mailing lists (how do
                             I do that... etc)
                          -> more companies releasing more
                             closed-source drivers as modules
			  -> more problems which cannot be fixed and
                             more hardware not working on older kernels
-> not so good linux :-(

There is no advantage without disadvantages.
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