On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sid Boyce
There will always be "The problem" for the "new user", the new user who doesn't know or hasn't got herself familiar with what a GNOME or a KDE is. I don't see how we fix that, other than eliminating choice, something that the many reviewers recommend constantly - new users are supposed to be pretty stupid, easily confused, horrified at the amount of disk space and memory called for and frightened away from Linux in general and openSUSE in particular.
I don't know how true that really is, though -- my girlfriend's 9 year old installed openSUSE on an old laptop of mine the other day with no assistance aside from picking a username and password (he could have done that as well, but she insisted on setting up the admin password, for good reasons...). And that was from the 10.3 DVD -- and we've made some serious installer improvements just since then. Of course, we will have single-desktop installable live CDs that have only one choice. Should we be directing users towards those rather than the DVD? That's probably a discussion for a different list.
I can't see a "BEST" way and doubt there is one that will meet everyone's idea of what best is.
True, but we can pick a way that is most intuitive to most users. My belief is that when you offer a user a set of choices that are not incompatible, they should be able to select more than one choice at that stage. I think it's a bit counterintuitive and slightly frustrating when doing the install if you are only allowed to choose one at that time. Of course, I tend to run through the installation routine much more often than I think most of our audience will -- so maybe I have stronger feelings about it than the average user would because, even if it is frustrating, it's only going to be frustrating *once*. :-) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org