On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:04, Tom <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I find that after a decent install most people don't even notice that they are > using a different OS. Firefox is there and the menus easy to navigate. > Documents open with a double-click.
I don't fully agree - e.g. Movie player is not playing a lot of videos. Need to use VLC for those - so VLC must be installed and for different files open with must be changed to use VLC instead of movie player by default. I tend to instruct people to first double-click and when it does not work use right mouse button and open with VLC. This is easier than trying to find a sample for each possible format and change default open. Similar applies for sound formats. And there are IMHO some other first-to-dos, be it tools to install (like gsmartcontrol, Thunderbird, ...) and some options to change. - But I don't want to complain about this because I have plenty more first-to-dos under Win* and on Ubuntu I start the Synaptic, go once through the list, ticking everything I want and then save the list to an external file and never need to do it again manually. > As G stated it is the install process that is the most difficult part. No, really, the installation is straight-forward. As with 10.10 it either already starts preparing the harddrive while I do the last inputs, is awesome - as well as WLAN already available and downloading the updates already on the go. And with net access it already knows the country I am in (regarding time settings). So there is nothing more I wish to have. > We try to make that easy and many people have lists of what to do after a > basic install > in blogs and websites or in magazines. One idea: You could grab the most used sets of pre-installations and pre-sets and offer that as additional option at installation, e.g. similar as Fedora does, asking the user for typical use "Home user, Developer, Designer/Photographer, ..." - that probably would make it easier for a lot of people and for Canonical it would be just running a few additional apt-get install lines and maybe some default configuration files. I personally already have some files containing those, so for me no problem as it. -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs