That seems pretty irrelevant to the specific quote I was addressing, but in general it’s unfortunate there’s no tech-illiterate focused distro AFAIK, because it seems like CUA-mode would get you far enough to appeal to a lot of pretty mild power users (eg. there are stories of non-technical secretaries learning to program without realizing it by learning Emacs macros).
The specific quote exists as part of a broader context in this thread in which the accessibility of any proposed alternative to excel is relevant. Making it relevant to point out that while emacs might be a valid alternative for some, it is not for most users.
> The specific quote exists as part of a broader context in this thread in which the accessibility of any proposed alternative to excel is relevant.
Right, which is why I tried to address the next claim:
> while emacs might be a valid alternative for some, it is not for most users
I think a distro like Spacemacs but with cua-mode / UX targeting Office users instead of with evil-mode / UX targeting vi users could make it fairly viable for many or even most users, it seems that it already is for many users, like the secretaries I mentioned in my other comment, who considered themselves non-programmers if not non-power users (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
Well I guess we're splitting hairs at this point. No need to go another few rounds, I'll just thank you for pointing out Spacemacs, which looks pretty interesting.
