Re: Paul Davis at LAC 2017
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 7:19 am
They're very good at mastering whatever GUI is presented to them on condition that all the background configuration has already been done for them, so that all that's left to them is to kind of "paint by numbers" to arrange things however they wanted them. What they're less good at is getting under the hood. That's the challenge to most of these folks and why so many are unwilling or incapable of making the jump from Windows & MacOS. Additionally there are other factors such as more software & hardware options, less esoteric issues, more support from commercial vendors etc. etc.glowrak guy wrote:The kids are using cellphone operating systems, mastering multiple social-media accounts,
streaming entertainment, buying things with plastic accounts, so not as green regarding technology and configuration
as you put forth.
It's a scale thing... the Linux Audio community is a lot smaller, there just isn't as much resource and development effort going into making the entire experience as idiot-friendly and eye-candy rich as is the case with the commercial OS's. And Linux culture is a bit different. It's sort of assumed and expected that users have an interest in gaining knowledge and experience of the OS and that users are motivated to become mildly competent at using and understanding the OS.
Having said all that, I totally agree with you that any motivated and semi-competent person has the ability to figure it all out. It's just that most of them choose not to because they already have all that available to them with the commercial OS's and sphere.