From: Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com>
To: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6]
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:27:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMUm492vqnPFJ3ZqvbyNPGnTJZq1tbA34R01W8rX9=HO51qNUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMUm493U8Ynwd0AEKNm802bd_irWmgU2TB7OAguqyRkBGQm=_w@mail.gmail.com>
Emacs has a giant normie-noob shaped hole in its intake funnel. The
warnings against using Emacs on Windows on the download page are good,
but not enough. Noobs need a positive recommendation of platform, and
a practical one, not ideological. It should say something like:
"If you've never coded, then Emacs can be very difficult if approached
wrong. Avoid Windows (unless you have someone to do your tech
support). Use MacOS (or a user-friendly Linux such as Ubuntu Mint).
Install Emacs with homebrew (on MacOS). Then install Spacemacs. Visit
their chat channel if you need help. Run the tutorial. Learn Org mode.
Become more productive!"
AFAIK Spacemacs is the only major consumer-oriented distro; the rest
are aimed at devs.
Dev-noobs will stick with Emacs cuz they need it for various techie
workflows and competing tools are similarly arcane. But normie-noobs
will bounce if they don't find a quick path to PIM.
Endorsing MacOS violates the free software ethos. But realistically,
normie-noobs shouldn't try Linux until they've learned Emacs. Emacs
allows them to control the Linux environment. Until then, Apple can
hold their hands. Getting them hooked on Emacs pretty much guarantees
they'll try Linux anyway. It's drug dealer marketing: the first hit is
always free.
How does that metaphor apply, if Emacs is already free software?
Because the cost of free software is the learning curve. Be as
ruthless about extracting that price as Microsoft is about extracting
theirs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-07 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-06 2:33 org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6] Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 6:55 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 7:15 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 9:46 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 10:16 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 10:51 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 11:17 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 12:09 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 12:40 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 21:21 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 21:38 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 23:33 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 0:37 ` Corwin Brust
2020-02-07 1:06 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 4:27 ` Texas Cyberthal [this message]
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2020-02-04 21:36 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 23:26 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 2:43 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-05 3:49 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:02 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:09 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 15:30 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-04 4:08 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 7:05 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-10 7:00 ` Bastien
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