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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org