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Let The Be No More Car Analogies

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From: nuxxie@linux.rocks (Nuxxie)
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by: Nuxxie - Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:47 UTC

GNU/Linux is often compared to a car, an elegant sports car at times, but
still a car.

This analogy is flat wrong. GNU/Linux is not like a car; rather it is like
a airplane.

Most people can easily drive a car. Most people cannot easily fly an
airplane.

Airplanes are for the technical elite. To fly, one must know aerodynamics,
navigation, meteorolgy, etc. or you will not be allowed to operate an
airplane, private or otherwise.

So stop the car analogies.

The case is now settled.

Move along.

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From: ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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by: Lawrence D'Oliv - Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:42 UTC

Cars will never be popular, because there are too many different kinds of
cars around: different sizes, numbers of seats, numbers of doors,
different colours ... they can’t even decide which end should be the
driving wheels!

If they could get rid of all this choice, and settle on a standard car
model, then maybe cars would become popular enough to compete with
computers.

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by: chrisv - Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:07 UTC

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>Cars will never be popular, because there are too many different kinds of
>cars around: different sizes, numbers of seats, numbers of doors,
>different colours ... they cant even decide which end should be the
>driving wheels!

Exactly! There's "too much choice"! Choosing one is like a "needle
in a haystack"! Each and every one must be tried, before the decision
made!

Oops, sorry. For a minute there I thought I was -highhorse.

--
"That's what you said:" - DumFSck, lying shamelessly, after which he
quoted what I really said. Nice of him, to document his own *lie*.

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by: rbowman - Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:31 UTC

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:47:57 +0000, Nuxxie wrote:

> Airplanes are for the technical elite. To fly, one must know
> aerodynamics,
> navigation, meteorolgy, etc. or you will not be allowed to operate an
> airplane, private or otherwise.

And the UX is often like driving a 1995 Oldsmobile with wings. One of the
elderly planes I flew had a little problem so the usual final approach
checklist including pumping up the brakes if you planned to stop before
hitting something.

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by: rbowman - Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:43 UTC

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:42:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> If they could get rid of all this choice, and settle on a standard car
> model, then maybe cars would become popular enough to compete with
> computers.

There is no need for anything other than a Trabant. The amazing forward
looking design is absolutely ready to lead the EV revolution. Move over
Tesla, Trabi coming through.

VMS version 2.0 ==>

computers / comp.os.linux.advocacy / Re: Let The Be No More Car Analogies

Subject	Author
Let The Be No More Car Analogies	Nuxxie
Re: Let The Be No More Car Analogies	Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Re: Let The Be No More Car Analogies	chrisv
Re: Let The Be No More Car Analogies	rbowman
Re: Let The Be No More Car Analogies	rbowman