I agree with Joe and Ken. Ubuntu would be tough to adjust to to a user who has been used to Windows. He has been pampered with a very large variety of software, and lives in an ecosystem where software is not got from repositories but downloaded from a site, followed by a Next>next installer.
On the face of it, the software repository model is far easier to use/install, and quicker too for the end user. The only reason it isn't seen as such by users, is because a majority of users have gotten used to the Windows ecosystem "bugs", and regard them as "features" and expect it from competitors as well. That said, the amount of software in *nix is still catching up with Windows, and the same is true about the *quality* of software (think Photoshop) To conclude, the article showed that windows user find it hard to adjust to linux, which is important information when targeting Windows users. It was however not an objective analysis of operating system features as such. ~Anil On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Ken Jackson <solaris at kenjackson.us> wrote: > This article and many like it are very Windows-centric. That is, > they assume Windows is the standard to be compared against. > > It's true that most non-technical people have some knowledge and > skill using Windows and none with any other OS, but that fact only > makes the skew easier to miss. > > It would be hard to find many non-technical people who have only > used Linux (or Solaris), but if you could find some and run a test > like this in reverse, I'll bet you would have similar results or > worse. I sure know I feel frustrated when I have to use Windows. > And I used to use it all the time. > > -Ken Jackson > > > On 28-Apr-08, at 1:43 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > > An Excellent article dissecting the usability of Ubuntu: > > > http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/ > > > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
