Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by vntok on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:11AM
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Try talking Grandma over the phone to help her share her photo directory with Aunt Jeanine, on the same PC. No command line allowed, and you know she can only focus on that type of task for 4, maybe 5 minutes top.
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That wouldn't work reliably under Windows, either, as nobody knows anything about files and directories generically anymore.
(That's the reason why first the Windows explorer was suddenly sufficent enough and then almost completely disregarded)
A public folder on the same PC is way harder to explain than just telling your photo app to share it with your resident spying company/cloud provider, despite how wasteful the round trip is.
Not that that has anything to do with a discussion about the "unix way" as a special case or even superset of IDEs.
I think you're confusing easy and simple. Windows is easier (for most people), but linux is certainly simpler.
I can't imagine any system where you'd have a good chance of succeeding in that scenario without some kind of remote administration tool. Remote controlling a user over the phone is difficult, unreliable and time-consuming.
Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by userbinator on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:59AM
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No command line allowed
It's easier to tell someone what keys to press than to find and manipulate UI elements.
on the same PC
On a PC, everyone already has access by default, so "sharing" doesn't involve anything additional.
Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by darkmighty on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:10AM
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My mother can't reliably remember how to operate the remote control but uses linux just fine (browsing, editing text documents, etc).
Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by lallysingh on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:37AM
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.. install remote admin tool? Gotomypc etc?
Or just tell them to copy it to a USB stick. Yep, same machine, it's still the best answer.
Re:Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
by t0astbread on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:52AM
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Share? Google Drive. Or email. Both of which are equally good/bad to explain to grandma on Windows and Linux.