Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Andy <anditosan1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice Jos.

Andreas Jaeger just asked me to port this to the project and so I did.
Thanks for the feedback.

Andy

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2010 20:43:33 Andy wrote:
> > To me, the best thing that you guys can do is first define "Who do you
> > want to target?"
>
> Andy, my friend, within a few days the strategy team will release exactly 
> THAT part of our new "who are we" thing :D
>
> Don't great minds think alike?
>
> ;-)
>
> > Why? because it is the best decision that will show
> > you what you want. Something that I can envy from Ubuntu, for example,
> > is the fact that they always wanted that "human connection" with their
> > users. They displayed this in all areas in marketing and I think it
> > still sells well. I believe openSUSE is a tool that helps power users
> > primarily but has lost the feel of what it is like to have newcomers
> > in their distribution.
> >
> > Many may fear that because you take a more "novice" approach to the
> > desktop, that it will take away from the ability that power users have
> > to use the distribution. But to me the matter is more simple. Power
> > users will be more comfortable if they use openSUSE that has a more
> > minimalistic and simpler approach to the desktop because that way,
> > They will be able to focus more on the tasks that they are performing
> > rather than devising ways to customize the desktop to their needs, and
> > things like that.
>
> Amen to that. Powerusers don't want to have to search for something and 
> things have to work out of the box as much as possible. But they don't  want 
> to be stuck with what they got, either. It's about balance. And there is 
> still a choice there - if you focus so extremely on 'novices', as Ubuntu 
> does, you DO de-optimize for powerusers, I have little doubts about that. I 
> think openSUSE can affort sitting a bit closer to powerusers - not making 
> things hard but at least making things accessible to them when they need it. 
> openSUSE has always done that - which is why it is so popular with system 
> admins and other experienced computer users. I think we must keep that legacy 
> in honour, even when we try to make sure everyone can use our software. 
> Powerusers are ALSO human, despite what you might have heard ;-)
>
> > Please, remember that there is hidden potential within the novice
> > users you can attract to openSUSE.
> >
> > Andy
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