From kde-devel Wed Sep 26 18:48:20 2007 From: "Elio Cuevas" Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:48:20 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Konqueror blocking due to NS Plugins Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=119083254720324 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============1758727205==" --===============1758727205== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_3171_25457076.1190832500263" ------=_Part_3171_25457076.1190832500263 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2007/9/26, Stephan Johach : > > Am Mittwoch 26 September 2007, 14:02:26 schrieb Randy Kramer: > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 03:31 am, koos vriezen wrote: > > > Have you any statistics on this. My feeling is that the average user > > > does know about top, ps and kill. Even a significant percentage knows > > > how to write these utils. > > > > The current "average" (i.e., mean, median) user of Linux might indeed > know > > about top, ps, and kill, which is sort of a disappointment. I'd like to > > see Linux and kde become more suitable to the user who doesn't know > about > > top, ps, and kill. > > The average user only needs to know Ctrl-Esc. Sure, but how is she suposed to know what proccess to kill? I know exactly (well, almost) what each proccess do, but when i go to Windows i see a bunch of proccess with funny names and go blindinggly killing stuff is asking for trouble. I can imagine a similar situation for someone coming from Windows to Linux: "Hey, that 'X' thing is eating my CPU..." ------=_Part_3171_25457076.1190832500263 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 2007/9/26, Stephan Johach <lucardus@onlinehome.de>:
Am Mittwoch 26 September 2007, 14:02:26 schrieb Randy Kramer:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 03:31 am, koos vriezen wrote:
> > Have you any statistics on this. My feeling is that the average user
> > does know about top, ps and kill. Even a significant percentage knows
> > how to write these utils.
>
> The current "average" (i.e., mean, median) user of Linux might indeed know
> about top, ps, and kill, which is sort of a disappointment.  I'd like to
> see Linux and kde become more suitable to the user who doesn't know about
> top, ps, and kill.

The average user only needs to know Ctrl-Esc.

Sure, but how is she suposed to know what proccess to kill? I know exactly (well, almost) what each proccess do, but when i go to Windows i see a bunch of proccess with funny names and go blindinggly killing stuff is asking for trouble. I can imagine a similar situation for someone coming from Windows to Linux: "Hey, that 'X' thing is eating my CPU..."


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