Originally Posted by
oldmako
What I do and don't understand about PBS has little to do with what I posted. "The fact that it requires a thick manual certainly says something negative about the systems opacity and gymnastics required to successfully use the program"
Point taken, but is that really a negative? Would a "close-and-play" interface produce better results?
Take Adobe's Photoshop as an example. It's a very complex program that's capable of producing amazing results for those who resolve to learn the program. It can also be useful to novices, but without fully learning the program they'll be somewhat limited in what they can do.
There's also MS Paint that's about as dumbed down as it can get. Everyone can learn it, but no one will produce anything remarkable.
So which one is better?