On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 20:04, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/10/23 Scot McSweeney-Roberts <[email protected]>: > > What's really sad about this statement is he could have had audacity > > installed in seconds - I guess he didn't know about the package manager. > > The is an "Add/Remove" entry on the applications menu. > However some people may think this adds entries to the menu instead of > adding or removing applications to the system. > > Maybe it should be renamed it to "Install/Uninstall Applications"? > > The odd thing is Windows refers to the same thing as "Add or Remove > Programs" doesn't it? > > Andy > > I think there are 2 problems 1) At the moment it's labelled "Add/Remove" but it's not immediately obvious what's being added/removed. I could swear it was called something more obvious in previous versions, but I can't remember what (I tend to use synaptic over add/remove, so it could change and I'd not notice). 2) In WIndows, Add/Remove is never really used to add software and it doesn't have a software catalogue inside it. Someone coming from Windows will probably not expect it to be as useful as it is. At least people are getting used to concept of app stores, so if it's explained as an "app store for Ubuntu where everything's free" new users might work out what it does sooner. Every time I hear the line "software is hard to install on Linux" I cringe. Maybe what's really needed is for Microsoft to start shipping an app store for Windows that has a least a vague similarity to way things work on modern Linux distros. Scot
