 Permalink for comment Why focus on the filesystem? by F
Hendrikx on Tue 29th Apr 2003 23:36 UTC  Although your article
is well written, it seems to me to be missing an essential
point: If I was a basic user, why do I want to look at the file
system? I want to be able to open my documents, read email and
browse the web, not look around "under the hood".  The
underlying filesystem is irrelevant to a basic user. Sure, /dev
or /proc don't mean anything to most users, but why should they
care? As long as the basic tasks that most users need to
complete can be done easily from the DE, what does it matter?