a linux ready for simple users ? (Re: issues with warty final

[Turing Test]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 23:39:51 +0200, Oliver Grawert
<hostmaster at grawert.net> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.10.2004, 14:18 +0200 schrieb Turing Test:
> > The very single thing that Ubuntu should at least do, in order to be
> > user-friendly, is linking to a real how-to "on demand", when the user
> > makes hers first attempt to open a file format that's not supported by
> > Ubuntu. 
> no, the right way would be to make it just work.....
> 
Undoubtly. But that's forbidden by the licenses of the involved
software, so it's not an option.

> > Given that you already know what Synaptic is, and how to use it. Those
> > I would consider moderately advanced knowledge for a non-sophisticated
> > user that knows how to use a mouse and just want to listen to her
> > music. At the bare minimum, you should supply her with mediums to
> > learn how to put her system to work, in a task-oriented way.
> given you _really_ read the howto and used the nice capability of html
> to link pages to other pages you'll know in the end how to use synaptic and
> what universe is... ;)
> 

My concern here is that you have no way to discover that pages by
yourself. You have to be told about the existence of the howto by
other people. While this reinforces the "community" aspect of the
distro, it doesn't work for people not used to read internet forums
and it's definitely not task-oriented (i.e. badly usable).

> anyway, it's a wiki page, so you're able to edit it to your needs if you
> dont like it, go on, everybody here appreciates if the documentation is
> improved.
> 
> :)

Yes, that's the spirit ;-) I'm thinking of making a python script for
a wizard-like tutorial, with the same content of the howto. But I'll
have to learn how to configure those things myself, first.