Well I think a "professional" is a person who can install Linux on his or
her own. You maybe laugh about this sentence, but I know people who can´t
install Windows. They aren´t professionals I think. If they can´t install
Windows, the maybe can´t install Linux too. A professional should know
things like this:
- *What´s a swap-partition?
- *Where´s root?
- *Why I can´t running my Windows applications without wine or something
other?
Yes, that are questions they are important to me. A professional should be
an advanced or power user. I think that´s say all.
Regards,
kdl
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From: Holger Hetterich
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 8:32 AM
To: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] What's the latest on the strategy
discussion?
Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
On 2010-11-08 17:42:09 (+0100), Holger Hetterich
<hhetter(a)novell.com>
wrote:
[...]
[...] The "world's
most usable Linux" is something that depends on the users look at it. I,
as a user, see the whole phrase as something like: "Ok, they want to be
usable, even for my grandma, and by the same time create something new,
innovative, and maintain it !".
"Usable", as Martin wrote, is really a bad term to use IMHO.
It is unclear, and everyone will have her own interpretation of that
term. Some may even understand it as "accessible" (as in a11y).
You will always have a personal interpretation of an individual on any
terms you have in a strategy statement. For example, what defines
someone being a "professional" (used in other suggestions)? What will a
"professional" from the film industry expect from a linux distribution
for professionals?
Also, I don't have a problem in that someone understands it as
accessible as in a11y, and having those in the target audience included.
The mission statement must be short and precise.
It is already short. The more precise you get, the more possible users
will be lost. Is that the idea?
I wholeheartedly agree with the "explaining is
losing" that was cited on
this thread.
You will always have to explain it. There's no way around it.
And actually, that's the distribution I am
looking for, both from the
POV of a user or a developer.
But that is specifically what we do _not_ aim for, as of the strategy.
Again, having a strategy and defining a target audience does _not_ mean
that openSUSE isn't usable for less or inexperienced users (my
girlfriend and my daughter use it too, and neither of them are computer
wizards).
I never had doubts on that.
It just means that our focus, during development and
when we have to
take decisions that can only go one way or another, we take the decision
that favours our target audience.
And that would be to decide for the solution that provides the best
usability, while trying to maintain a good platform for development and
innovation. What is the problem?
Linux isn't exactly known for being usable for the masses. I think a
distribution showing it can be usable is a remarkable goal.
Holger
cheers
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