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GoodwillMan:
I hope for some good feedback this is not ment to be a trollpost, but I found the one thing that Linux does that people dont like. Well one of them anyway.

First lets look at most popular operating system Microsoft Windows, it is used everywhere, most of its users dont even know what the word Operating System means. These users see questions as challenges to there eyes. Everytime a system asks them, they feel that if they give the wrong answer the Universe will collapse/they will goto jail/microsoft will sue them/ect.

Linux asks a mighty lot of questions, but still they are not hard, any person with a basic technical knoledge of computers can Install Mandrake or Red-Hat these days.

The command line is not putting people off, but the geekyness is. (asking questions, linux is very customisable, and it asks a lot of questions).

What is needed is at the start of a Linux is a "Are you a moron" question. Mandrake has one, but Mandrake still need it to be more featureless and uncustomisable. Actually the big question is asking what they want there system to do, and it will use that to decide what they need.

Asking for keybored types and stuff is not needed just have say a "Country" option that sets it automatically.

There are many other questions Red-Hat, Mandrake, SuSe ask that could be made moron friendly

Well who has other ideas?

suselinux:
Im realy realy sorry but I have to agree.

Linux must be standardized and simplified.

My first Linux install was Redhat 7.3

when what is now the simplest of questions came up and I was stumped

I was asked if I wanted to install a desktop, workstation or server.  I knew I did not want a server, but I had no idea the difference between a desktop and workstation

I think we should see only one question for the entire install

Install or Customized Install?

Then wam bam and 30 minutes later your running Linux on KDE, or GNOME which ever the distro prefers.

There should be no other question except for root passwrd and user name

anything that needs to be changed could either be done in that custom install or after the fact from something similar to SuSE's Yast2 or KDE's Control  Center (When will Control Center support GRUB configuration).

No questions

In fact it should be the other way around a realy dumbed down help center with an animated penguin instead of that MS dog

There would be a text field beside wich the penguin would say "Ask me a question about Linux!".

This would act as a keyword search to find BOTH Documentation and a GUI (stress GUI not shell) to configure what ever part of your system needs tweaking after install.

And as far as geeky goes, just wait until you graduate highschool, that word becomes more and more ambiguous.  Besides every OS is Geeky.  Frankly I think that XP is Pussy, and MS has too many adds with smiling men...... creeps me out   :D

[ May 25, 2003: Message edited by: suselinux ]

preacher:
Linux is not an OS for morons and Im glad. After working at a help desk and talking to the morons who use Microsoft products, Im glad that they dont use linux. Its a great thing to be able to ask any linux user a complicated question and know he will likely be able to solve it. It once took me 1 hour before I figured out that a woman's high speed internet wasnt working because she didnt pay the bill. Do I want her using linux? Hell no. Let linux have an audience just like how apple has an audience. Just as long as there is choice. I never want to hear that I have no choice.

suselinux:
If you want to keep your choice then make Linux more acceptable to the masses or it will be sqeezed out of the desktop.

Doctor V:
Linux is not for Morons, but the people have to stop using Winblows.  They need somthing else they can use.  So either a for-morons version of Linux must be made, macs need to be made less expensive, or a new easy desktop OS needs to come out.

I think one area that they should make easier is partitioning.  Don't try to ask a moron how to partition a disk, even the automatic partitioning they offer isn't enough.  They should just bring up a pie chart showing their hard drive with the partitions labeled only by what OS is on them, and then ask if its ok to put linux, pointing to an empty slice, with buttons to make the Linux slice larger or smaller.  And it has to be one big slice for Linux, nothing about spaw or boot or whatever.

  ;)  V  ;)

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