Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > (in terms of how it informs the user of
> > dependencies).
>
>  I only agree in that exact point, the wording on the error messages still
> seems to come from hell looking from a joe user perspective, hopefully they
> will improve in the future.
>
>  In most other aspects, the dependency resolver is **much** superior to the
> other alternatives.

The resolver might be better, but the user experience is not.
Synaptic might be a lot weaker in that respect, but the user
experience is much better - I say this based on experience.. not my
own but with the dozens of people I've helped migrate from Windows to
openSUSE, and who have since switched to Ubuntu/Kubuntu... the
reason... software management.  They do not like YAST... they like
Synaptic.  They don't care about a superior dependency resolver.. they
care what they see... how easy it is to add new software and update
existing software.

Bringing this back to the thread theme... this is something Ubuntu
does better... saying that openSUSE does it better in the backend,
while true, has little impact on the "Joe User" who wants it to be
easy.  openSUSE can stand on its soapbox and say I am better because
of (insert technical reason here) but as long as Ubuntu is making the
user experience better, the superior technical aspects of openSUSE
will be ignored.... think Betamax vs VHS... which is STILL in use?

C.
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