In the most recent LugRadio episode was a feature about how the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) states that applications should be named in the applications menu not as the program name, but as what the program does.  This is something I’d like to explore a little more in another post.  But during the discussions, they mentioned an interesting point:  Gnome follows (or tries to follow) the paradigm of the ego-less desktop.  This means that it’s not important who coded your program, it’s important what it does.  And this got me thinking about one of the HUGE annoyances I have as I read the blogs and news pages about Linux.  Everyone complains about how Linux isn’t quite there yet and how it needs to fix this or that before it’s easy enough for the proverbial Grandmother.  Let’s take a look at some use casse and see how Linux is precisely the opposite - it’s MUCH easier to use than Windows.

Time to empty out my quotes from my AIM profile again, here are the latest:

“My vagina is always better than a white girl’s” - Mai

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Guest on Colbert Report: “Yes, you learned very well in Sunday School.” Colbert: “I teach Sunday School Mother F-cker!”

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“[Operating System] Open Solaris is good for diversity” “What? That’s like saying that schools should make sure they have enough Ginger Kids to keep diverse” -LugRadio