There is NO such thing as too easy to use. The whole point of an operating system is to be functional - in every aspect of that word. The more intuitive it is, the /better/ it's been designed.
Not necessarily. The simplest systems are the most intuitive, but they ultimately limit the power of the user to do a wider scope of things that he/she might want to do.
Really, you want your "intuitiveness" to scale inversely with the scope of things the system can do.
If you have a large system, it doesn't need to be intuitive, but it needs to be conceptually coherent---that is, it needs to limit accidental complexity.
I think it's accurate to say that good Linux distros follow these principles.
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There is NO such thing as too easy to use. The whole point of an operating system is to be functional - in every aspect of that word. The more intuitive it is, the /better/ it's been designed.
Not necessarily. The simplest systems are the most intuitive, but they ultimately limit the power of the user to do a wider scope of things that he/she might want to do.
Really, you want your "intuitiveness" to scale inversely with the scope of things the system can do.
If you have a large system, it doesn't need to be intuitive, but it needs to be conceptually coherent---that is, it needs to limit accidental complexity.
I think it's accurate to say that good Linux distros follow these principles.
This is not necessarily right. Take for instance a pen.
A pen is 100% intuitive and can do exactly 1 thing.
What's your point?