Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

C schreef:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:39, Martin Schlander wrote:
>   
> > My take has always been that with 5% more end user friendlyness, openSUSE
> > would be 100% more successful in the home user market - and this would have a
> > very positive spill-over effect on SLE sales - because sysadmins and 
> > IT-buyers
> > are consumers too when they go home.
> >     
>
> I agree 100%.  All too often though people familiar with Linux and its
> inner workings fail to see that "just open a terminal and type (string
> of obscure text commands) to do X" is the wrong answer.  I see this
> all the time on the various mailing lists.  Heck, take a look at the
> documented "procedure" for making a bootable USB stick from the
> openSUSE DVD ISO, and compare it to the Ubuntu process (it's a menu
> entry choice).  We constantly seem recoil from the user "friendlyness"
> in favor of "the way we've always done it".
>
> That said, there are parts about openSUSE that shine in terms of user
> friendlyness... YaST for example.  It has its warts, but overall it's
> a great tool.
>
> C.
>   
Both posts, points well seen..

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