On 06/02/2019 23.00, Michal Kubecek wrote:
I believe this narrow focus on attracting new users or customers is one of the big problems of our society. My term for the problem is "society ADHD". It's the narrow minded focus on attracting new users/customers leading to completely ignoring those one already has and their need and preferences. This leads to focus on these new users - and even more so potential users - being able to use the device, program or distribution without learning anything and without reading boring manuals. What do distribution "reviews" look like?
The "reviewer" goes through the installation, makes a few screenshots, boots, takes few more screenshots, logs into KDE/Gnome, starts few well known applications and takes some more screenshots. The more responsible ones keep it running for few hours and maybe even try to simulate some real life activity. What does such "review" tell you about how well is the distribution serve an everyday user after few monts when he learned about its quirks and cool features? Nothing - exactly as those undercooked Phoronix benchmarks, exactly as superficial and meaningless.
Do you know that I came to install SuSE because of a good review on the summer of 1998? I initially installed something else. Debian? Redhat? I don't remember, but I understood nothing. Then a magazine published a review of several distros, a comparison. It said that "SuSE professional" was the easiest one of the lot. And another magazine summer special included 5.3 on two CDs. So I went for it and never looked back :-) Good reviews are important to newbies. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)