Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 November 2010 08:13:41 Per Jessen wrote:
> Kostas Koudaras wrote:
> > 2010/11/8 jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Le 08/11/2010 18:39, Peter Linnell a écrit :
> > > > Agreed there as well. My non-geek wife is perfectly at ease with any
> > > > of my desktops or laptops running openSUSE :) Even better she likes
> > > > them better than my macbook :-)
> > >
> > > from memory, the strategy project say that we don't "aim' to
> > > unexperienced user, with the exception of the ones backed up by a
> > > power user :-))
> >
> > I strongly disagree with that,isn't that why forums exist?
> > To help the unexperienced user?
>
> Fora are there because some people prefer that style of interface. For
> some reason it does appear to be particularly attractive to less
> experienced users.
>
> > If what you say is true I would be still using windows or Ubuntu,
> > along with many others.  Also making unexperienced users use openSUSE
> > should be one of our top priorities.
>
> Well, it's not where the latest strategy discussions have been heading.

Actually, if this unexperienced user wants to learn, openSUSE is perfect for 
him/her... That was definately part of the strategy discussion.