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[Jan Claeys]

Op do, 31-08-2006 te 08:51 +1100, schreef Dan McGarry:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > 
> > The voters on that site aren't typical linux users, they are mostly the
> > type of people that have been using linux (and often also "other unix")
> > for years.
> > 
> > And I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu has even less such users than many other
> > distros; considering that we specifically target new users in our
> > marketing (in addition to other users, of course).
> 
> Without necessarily disagreeing with this assertion, and at the risk of
> going slightly off-topic: Has anyone demonstrated a correlation between
> marketing and user demographic?

It's not only marketing but also Ubuntu being easy to install and having
a great support community, but the marketing surely helps; just go buy
some computer magazines, for some very popular ones targeted at home
users (and I don't mean hobbyists!), Ubuntu was the first linux distro
they ever reviewed.

> I ask because I see many design decisions being made based on this
> assumption (some contentious, some not so), so it makes sense to ask:
> 
> 1) Is this the actual demographic we're getting? *Is* this a 'newbie'
> distro?

Ubuntu is targeted at both newbies and professionals, which makes it
possible for you and me to run the same distro that we install on
mom's[1] computer.

[1] "mom" being the proverbial newbie, your mom might be a computer
scientist, I don't know...  ;-)

> 2) How are these design decisions actually affecting uptake?
> 
> This is a developers' list, but having heard so many moan (and not just
> on slashdot) that devs and users are often far removed from one another,
> it seems to make sense for developers here to do what they do best -
> that is, to profile the system accurately, and to understand the
> implications of their actions.

Whether individual design decisions affect uptake by a certain group is
difficult to find out.


-- 
Jan Claeys