* Billie Walsh
On 10/25/2017 06:03 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Roger Price
wrote: This desire to offer information needed by developers and sysadmins seems to have been lost on the home page. openSUSE needs to get back to previous good habits. I fully agree with that!
If I were someone looking to get into using linux for the first time and came to that page I would just keep moving. There's nothing there to tell me that this is something I can use. It's something only nerdy types can use. Not a common computer user.
And, people wonder why common users don't use Linux.
As the user base gets older the numbers are going to go into the toilet unless you can interest younger users into the fold. That page won't get it done.
and inferring to visitors that openSUSE is "pointed" at developers and sysadmin does not gain the more average user but only more highly "skilled" users. the fact that openSUSE is a great platform for developers and sysadmin is a plus but it must also be a "great" platform for the "unwashed masses" and provide them a great experience. being great for developers and sysadmin should be a prominent "footnote", not a description of the distribution. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org