Hello all, I've been following the 2016 picture thread and would like to share with you guys what I think. In the thread was mentioned, that the openSUSE project should focus on developers being main target of the project. But here arises the question: why are so many people using Ubuntu and Mint? Why are desktop users with non technical background using it? The key to everything is the user-base. Even the Grandma of the average Joe is a big plus! Every one more user you have as a distro is important, because Joe's grandma is increasing the user base (measurable via webcounters/browser ID etc) and will attract 3rd parties to provide their software for openSUSE. This 3rd party software maybe a _must_ for Tom who is a developer. Maybe other grandma's will ask their grandchildren (which may like openSUSE then too) to get openSUSE for them because they liked it when they drank tea with Joe's grandma (I know this is far-fetched but it's an example) which again brings more users. What do you need to make them install openSUSE over Ubuntu? A Killer Feature. What is needed to make them stick with openSUSE and recommend it to others? Quality. The killer features for each target group differs. But there are two things almost every target user group wants: Stability and Compatibility. Ubuntu already has their killer features software center, unity (hated by ones, loved by others), a big collection of ppa's. When I started to write this reply I wanted to start a new thread with an idea for openSUSE packages but this is long enough to be a reply on it's own so I'll make another thread with the idea but without my opinion on the 2016 picture Regards, Damian 2013/12/1 jdd <jdd@dodin.org>:
Le 01/12/2013 12:39, Simon a écrit :
at providing openSUSE DVD's for different subsets so size is a lesser restriction like a openSUSE DVD with developer tools, or server /
may be set the "dvd" size more on the flash key size than on dvd.
4bg are 3.5gb, but 8Gb are 7.5 and pretty cheap. presently I need a 8Bg to write a "dvd" image, plenty of spare
jdd
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