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..."