[K12OSN] OT: Towards Linux Desktop Comfort

[Ramon]

The biggest problem I see in the linux community is with users coming from windows
with no knowledge on how a OS works.

They have a good point, they are users they don't need to know how to deal with
some issues. Like installing software shouldn't be hard, and many don't know that
there's  a solution to this.
And to kill process there are a couple of solutions to user interface to this also.
I think there should be a distro even more focused on the user, ubuntu is almost
getting there, and mandriva also.


> On 10/30/05, Daniel Hedblom <daniel at solle.se> wrote:
>>>    http://kegel.com/linux/comfort/
>> I think you make the same assumption many other do about Linux.
>>That its supposed to be a drop in replacement of Windows.  ...
>
> Interesting fact: one of the major goals of
> Open Office 2.0 was to be more of a drop-in replacement
> for Microsoft Office.  They had tried being different for
> years, and discovered that users simply didn't care to
> spend the time to learn a different interface; they wanted
> their old familiar one.
> Does that mean Linux has to be just like Windows?
> No.  But it does mean that if you want people to use
> you, you have to make the learning curve really, really easy
> for users who are switching.
>
>>Microsoft is yesterdays news, we can stand here and wait or go ahead and make
>>something better than they do. If we just mimic them all we ever will
> accomplish is
>>second hand stuff. Why follow when you can lead?
>
> I'm totally with you, but if we want to switch over millions of
> people per year, we have to make sure they're comfortable
> with the idea.  Don't you agree?
>
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