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Usability, user-friendliness and the Linux desktop

By finid

He makes a somewhat valid point, but he’s attempting to draw a hard boundary between usability and user-friendliness, forgetting that one derives from the other. If you build a ???usable??? system, people will tend to say that it is ???user-friendly,??? regardless of the technical capabilities of the users.

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