On Wednesday 28 July 2010 10:49:49 Jim Henderson wrote:
The Ubuntu comparison makes this clearer in my mind. Though arguably our current userbase does include both technical and non-technical users (I see this in the demographics in the forums, for example - it often makes for interesting interactions between members of the two groups) - so we might want to consider that there is a decent size non-technical user following already that may feel left out with this direction (though it sounds like perhaps the direction hasn't been previously defined).
Right. It's still about focus, so targeting just everybody is not possible or likely to yield good results. Not focusing the openSUSE distribution on non- technical users also doesn't mean that somebody else couldn't jump in and fill that gap. It actually might be a very good and promising project to take openSUSE and add some more end-user polishing. The last openSUSE survey seemed to indicate that most users actually are quite technical users, so I'm not sure how big the group would be we would leave out with this direction.
The key differentiator here would thus be that we might include new technology if it makes sense, but the focus is on that ultimate usability as a reference implementation for re-spins and for a technical audience. Do you think that captures/restates the idea here?
Yes.
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