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Originally Posted by teknomage1
You seem to ignore the fact that these people can and do use the shell and grep and a whole host of unix features. I think the majority of people don't give users enough credit at all.
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That makes them (somewhat) technically knowledgable people. Ease of use is specifically about NOT having to use the command line among other things (the average user doesn't need to know about grep, the shell, etc).
The majority of Windows users don't dream of clicking on cmd.exe and when they do its because someone is telling them what to do on a step by step basis.
If the artists are working in Maya/Houdini/whatever, then I'm sure they're knowledgable enough to work "ls | grep blah". However, they are working on systems that require code input or scripts in the program itself, so simple scripting is part of their knowledge (assuming they're good artists). Shaders don't write themselves.
Now, get a pencil/paper artist near a computer and tell him to start writing scripts. Dreamworks is a Linux house and the artists get around just fine. However, using people that are generally computer saavy (such as 3D graphics artists) as your baseline for ease of use is fairly flawed.