Re: usability study: "30 days with Ubuntu" author had trouble with wine

2011-06-25 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Austin English wrote: > These all sound like packaging problems.. But still worth discussing here, I think. - Dan

Re: usability study: "30 days with Ubuntu" author had trouble with wine

2011-06-25 Thread Jerome Leclanche
(CC Scott) About the packaging issues, I have to agree the current system seems a bit counter-intuitive. I believe this was discussed before - something about debian naming rules - but given the development cycle of wine, wouldn't something like google-chrome's naming be better? wine-stable (1.0,

Re: usability study: "30 days with Ubuntu" author had trouble with wine

2011-06-24 Thread Edward Savage
On 25/06/2011, at 11:38, Austin English wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 18:58, Dan Kegel wrote: >> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231065/ubuntu_linux_day_23_would_you_like_some_wine_with_that.html >> >> First problem - ubuntu's package manager is unclear: >> >> "I opened up my

Re: usability study: "30 days with Ubuntu" author had trouble with wine

2011-06-24 Thread Austin English
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 18:58, Dan Kegel wrote: > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231065/ubuntu_linux_day_23_would_you_like_some_wine_with_that.html > > First problem - ubuntu's package manager is unclear: > > "I opened up my handy-dandy Ubuntu Software Center and typed Wine in > the

usability study: "30 days with Ubuntu" author had trouble with wine

2011-06-24 Thread Dan Kegel
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/231065/ubuntu_linux_day_23_would_you_like_some_wine_with_that.html First problem - ubuntu's package manager is unclear: "I opened up my handy-dandy Ubuntu Software Center and typed Wine in the search field, and...WTF? There are 14 matching items that