On Sunday 2010-08-01 14:37, Martin Schlander wrote:
Søndag den 1. august 2010 11:58:53 skrev Otso:
On 30/07/2010, Pavol Rusnak
wrote: We cannot compete with Ubuntu for the übernoob segment, and we shouldn't compete with Fedora on being experimental bleeding edge - instead we should pick the middle ground.
Claim that we can't compete with Ubuntu on user friendliness is plain absurd.
* openSUSE engineers are just not very good at making things that are intuitive, simple and non-scary for Joe Sixpack and Aunt Tillie
Nonsense. I am sure they could, if they wanted to. But they don't, because there are higher goals to achieve.
Therefore we need to find a niche where we are actually competitive, instead of just being a failed, second-rate Ubuntu - which is how a lot of people currently perceive openSUSE
Now that's really belittling the situation. openSUSE is not an Ubuntu, and neither is it second-rate. Novell does not throw out half-baked releases every six months, and they actually process bug reports.
Maybe "productive" and "professional" should be emphasized more in this strategy, and perhaps "poweruser" should be replaced with the less excluding "powerful", to avoid this confusion - but still communicate that people shouldn't expect something uber-simple with zero learning curve.
If they wanted that they would probably use Windows anyhow.
I think if we succeeded in branding openSUSE as "the powerful, professional, produtive linux for home users", then there'd suddenly be a bit of a "cool- factor" to using openSUSE, and n00bs would try it anyway - only they would have more realistic expectations about the simplicity, and would probably be happier with it.
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