Re: Installation
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:10 +0200, lee wrote:
> For those who don't want to or are unable to learn, have a button they
> can press to perform the installation, no matter what and no questions
> asked. However, those are the kind of people who better stay away from
> computers, which makes it doubtful how useful such a thing would be.
Different users, different needs. A DVB-T receiver is a computer, a DAT
recorder is a computer, perhaps your car is a computer, at least all
this things use computers. Some people know how to use a DVB-T receiver,
a DAT recorder and they can drive a car. Nobody expect them to know
details about the receiver, the recorder and the car.
IMO Linux for too many people is the Sangraal and they enjoy to diss
people who have no knowledge about computers.
A computer is a tool. The tool has to fit to the user needs. The more a
user needs to learn about things that have nothing to do with the usage,
the less good an OS is for averaged users. Linux isn't a good OS for
averaged users.
It won't harm to have empathy.
FWIW my favorite distro is Arch Linux, it fit best to some of my needs
and of course isn't good for averaged users. Distros as Debian, Ubuntu,
Suse, Fedora IMO could keep their installers, but the used language
should become understandable for averaged computer users. There's no
need to use terminology that much. "Partition", "host" etc. also could
be explained in layman's terms. For the advanced user there still should
be an option.
The biggest problem IMO is to install basics. For an advanced user Arch,
Gentoo etc. is very good, because the user has to install what is
needed. Arch for example doesn't install X by default. For Debian, Suse
etc. an installer already installs tons of software, that most users
never ever will need. It's ok, since this one day should enable
automatically installation.
Regards,
Ralf
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