Re: A teen's point of view
On Tuesday 28 November 2000 16:34, Annie Pinder wrote:
> Jimmy O'Regan <jimregan@lit.compsoc.com> said:
> > Being not long out of my teens, myself, I can say that the things
> > teens want are the same as non-technical adults - office-type
> > software (for school projects etc), e-mail and games/emulators.
> > Plus, most teens I know would avoid things aimed at "teens".
>
> I am a teenager, and I don't enjoy using "office type applications".
I am 18 years old and I need and enjoy spreadsheets and chart drawing
applications. I was a player before I used GNU/Linux and I hope there
will be some good games for GNU/Linux in the future. But since the most
high-quality games are proprietary this is not a Debian-issue. Debian
could have some task-packages for office- and some science-applications
(e.g. plotter) (and educational apps when they are more complete). These
task-packages should go into the "normal" distribution.
When I was 12-16 I hated it to be treaten as a child. So if I had the
choice between a teen-distribution an adult-distribution I would have
chosen the adult-distribution because I would have feared that there were
limitations to the teens-distribution.
I chose GNU/Linux because I knew it is used for high-end computers, too.
I wanted a "real" and strong OS (I was using Windows before).
We can provide a website for describing applications to help the users
(teens and adults) to choose between them and we can create task-packages
but we should not build a teen-distribution.
Now I am officially an adult and I think there are not too much
differences in the needs of teens and adults (regarding software).
Max Moritz Sievers
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