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Linux is actually blissfully easy to use. Genuinely.It is really easy to use.
Well more people than not have had more problems with ease of use with Linux than Windows. This is mainly with people like my mum who are not the lest bit computer literate. However, they are the true test of ease-of-use. And for them Windows is the easier one to use. I managed to teach my mum to do some things with Windows, but from my experience of both OSes and from numerous reports, it would be harder to this with Linux. Personally I found linux eadsier to use.
Because the term "ease of use" has been so badly distorted. In common usage, "easy to use" now means "easy to do something without knowing beforehand how to do it". But that's not really "easy to use", is it? That's "easy to figure out". It's like the difference between
True. However, when something is easier to figure out it then becomes easier to use since you then know how to do it, while you don't otherwise unless someone teaches you. However, in cases like your example the two do not go together. It's just that in some cases they do.
Also "ease of use" is a relative term. It is not an objective thing. It is subjective. What is easier for one person may be (and usually is) harder for another person. In other words: it isn't as clear cut as you illustrate it to be.
Well more people than not have had more problems with ease of use with Linux than Windows. This is mainly with people like my mum who are not the lest bit computer literate. However, they are the true test of ease-of-use. And for them Windows is the easier one to use. I managed to teach my mum to do some things with Windows, but from my experience of both OSes and from numerous reports, it would be harder to this with Linux. Personally I found linux eadsier to use.
Because the term "ease of use" has been so badly distorted. In common usage, "easy to use" now means "easy to do something without knowing beforehand how to do it". But that's not really "easy to use", is it? That's "easy to figure out". It's like the difference between
True. However, when something is easier to figure out it then becomes easier to use since you then know how to do it, while you don't otherwise unless someone teaches you. However, in cases like your example the two do not go together. It's just that in some cases they do.
Also "ease of use" is a relative term. It is not an objective thing. It is subjective. What is easier for one person may be (and usually is) harder for another person. In other words: it isn't as clear cut as you illustrate it to be.
