On 19/06/17 03:31 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
UNLESS YOU PREPARE AN UPGRADE WILL NOT BE JUST DISRUPTIVE, IT WILL BE DESTRUCTIVE!
I've had a few disasters like that - including in a work setting :-) That's why I'm paranoid :-)
Hand in hand with all that, the beast way to deal with the risks is, as I'm saying, as many people have pointed before now, by proper presentation.
But I think it's the KDE4/KDE5 upgrade that worries me most - not because I think it will be a problem in itself, but because my wife will find it traumatic.
I made that transition without even recognizing that I'd done it when I installed 42.1 with a few extra repositories. Even though the lifetime of KDE4 some things go "rearranged", and the "5" was just more rearrangement. After a while I noticed that when I ran 'ps' some of the applications listed had a "5" appended. But I play around with themes often enough that some of visual changes were subsumed by changing themes. So I tried running both systemsettings and systemsettings5 Yes there was a difference, but if anything it *looked* like a change in theme and icon set. What each thing did was the same. Now perhaps if you care to read http://www.zdnet.com/blog/murphy/why-many-mcses-wont-learn-linux/1137 you might get the point that for us Linux types, a rearrangement of the positions, the labels and so forth is no big deal.But should it be for a Windows user? Well perhaps ...
She's still on XP, because I can't get 7 to behave similarly.
For my sins, over the years, various employers have thrust upon me corporate laptops that run Windows, and required me to use, as might be appropriate, custom applications, as well as Microsoft Office. I've not been allowed to install 'stuff that actually works' such as Thunderbird in place of, in one case, Lotus Notes, OpenOffice in place of Word and Powerpoint and Excel, Firefox in place of Internet Explorer. I've lived though 'upgrades' that are indeed like the examples in the above article. I recall the shift in Office from the menu bar to the "ribbon", which baffled and impeded most of the people I worked with until we were sent on a special training course (which I skipped after the first morning). A manager I mentioned this to at another engagement where we were all using AIX said that Microsoft fostered "learned disability", that normal people, kids that had not been nurtured at the Microsoft teat, could adapt back and forth between, say, Android at different version, Apple on iAnyting, Linux and Windows, back and forth, just exploring the options, experimenting with little fear of 'breaking things'. I'm paranoid, but part of that is (a) I make backups and (b) if I don't know what the limits are I might do something really really terrible, so lets learn in a 'playpen/safety-belt' setting. I recall once teaching some user and meeting a young woman who was clearly nervous, She say back from the keyboard and reached out to peck at keys as if the keyboard was going to bite her. I told her not to be afraid of it, I took it and slammed it on the desk a few times, threw it against the wall. Keys fell out and scattered. I picked them up and stuck them back, plugged the keyboard back in, logged in, did some work, typing at full speed. No problems. "How could you do that?!?!" Its like Humpty-Dumpty said about words, who is the master? I think your problem is that because you can get Linux to "look" like "Richmond" with the right theme and icons and font, you cam make W/7 look and feel like like W/XP. Maybe what she needs is an iPad. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org