Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #306989, revision 7 Title: More Help to new Users openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority - Requester: Desirable + Requester: Important Requested by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Description: OK, opensuse is very simple to use, i agree, but many users just don't understand how a linux system works... what's a package??... why i have to use a Package Manager??!! Where is my network configuration?? why this is so diferent from windows or Mac?? Ubuntu today is the larger linux distribution because some reasons... follow a list of some important features that we can learn from: 1 - Too many community support (ok, openSUSE has this one) 2 - LTS release cicle (this is for SLED and SLES, i know) 3 - Too many manuals, documentation and Help (openSUSE has this one too) 4 - Costumized version of yelp with manuals to commom tasks, like use tha package manager and install codecs (i think that is the point) I sugest that openSUSE can do some advances on item 4 and this can help new users to understand how openSUSE works. I think that yast can be more explained by module on yelp, but in a easy way for end users and not thecnical way. Discussion: #1: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) (2009-07-30 20:04:51) There's already a "Getting started" article on the wiki which aims to fulfill this task: http://en.opensuse.org/Getting_Started_with_openSUSE Perhaps polishing & updating it and then making it more prominent would be the best thing. (And since it is a wiki everyone can do it ;)) #3: Artyom Aleksuk (h31) (2009-07-31 17:17:55) (reply to #1) New users don't like to read a documentation, so small tips during package management, codecs installations, etc may be better. #2: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) (2009-07-31 05:15:45) But... think about who don't know how to conect to internet, or how to use network manager... a local help like yelp would be the best place to describe this things. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306989