On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:34:47AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/21/2009 10:14 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > >> There is a clear trade-off here - either you "do wrong" by the > >> community, or you "do wrong" by users who want to try your distro but > >> run away screaming because you've confused and scared them. > > > > Thank you (and others!) for the thoughtful replies, there's a lot there > > think and munch on. > > > > I guess it's just many (including myself) failed to see any evidence or > > justification for the claims of "confused/scared new users" and the > > current greatly simplified design choice. And... because the board > > says so, continues to not be all that satisfying. > > I spend quite a lot of time in the community forums answering newbie > questions and users do get confused quite a bit on what to download. I > know it doesn't really match the KDE perspective of things but more > choices do confuse people. They do not necessarily understand x86_32 vs > x86_64 or GNOME vs KDE or what an ISO image is or how to actually burn > them etc. Now the approach to solving that problem might actually be > different to the current design but the problem is real. > > If you want to see this for yourself, grab a few non technical end users > and show them > > http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora (current) > > vs > > http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all (previous default page) > > vs http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page2.png That's the correct page to draw the analogy. The front page is not an apples to apples comparison because it's never had a clear way to download anything at all. (That notwithstanding the page1 mockup is a huge improvement in that regard.) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
