[ExI] standard form for creating a test, was: RE: humanities plus schmooze

[BillK]

On 12/9/12, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> I wonder why we (the public) accept radical change to UI.  Computers
> are supposed to do our bidding.  Instead we (the developers) write
> miserable code that is hard enough to debug in one use-case let alone
> skinned millions of ways... so we force a limited set of tested
> interfaces onto the public and make THEM adapt.  Seems though we can
> make humans adapt to software much more readily than we can make
> software adapt to humans. (wish it weren't so)
>


Because the public feels trapped into using Microsoft Windows.

They don't know that modern Linux is now more user-friendly than Windows.

And Linux users have choice.

Ubuntu (one of the most popular versions) changed to their Unity
interface and many many users hated it so much that they uninstalled
Ubuntu and moved to Linux Mint instead.

A similar fate befell the Gnome desktop. Their developers thought they
had great new ideas and produced Gnome 3 but many users didn't like it
and voted with their feet and reverted to Gnome 2 or moved to Linux
Mint.

Linux nowadays means computing the way YOU like it.


BillK