> While it was installing, I was wondering if Mandrake wasn't pushing
> quantity instead of quality in terms of bundled software. I mean,
> there seems to be a lots of redundancy or stuff that should be
> installed afterwards. A sort of "minimal handpick software" would be
> nice. How about having the possibility of filling a questionnaire for
> new users and use that to select the packages? (Do you want to publish
> web pages? Do you want to edit documents for the office? Do you want to
> play games?)
>
I'd like to reply here to this one. When someone is venturing into a new
arena, they usually want someone to tell them the best thing to do in order to
avoid trouble later on (we learn from one's experience). Well, i would hope
that most of the developers at mandrake use it as their o/s as well. As such,
they would probabley be one of the first ones to see new application/prgs and
be proficient with their usages. Why do i want to spend (all day, all night)
trying to search for the (best) program, when they've already got it on their
desktops? Ten to Fifteen years ago, i started programming. No i don't like to
see a mess of junk on my desktop (i.e. "online services folder" on the win98
desktop from installation...lol) but, I do "highly" like a multitude selection
of apps at my disposal picked w/o discretion! We all know there really isn't a
"cnet" or "zdnet" on rating these apps. And we all know that there is allot of
unstable stuff out there. Think these guys who make the o/s, would be the
first to know if something isn't compatable, etc, etc, etc. ... atleast for
the next five years or so.
(btw: have seen some promising s/w download sites for linux)
> I also had some questions in my head such as "Why
do I get enlighment > and x others window managers?"
Because, all i would know is KDE and win98 and nothing else. When i first saw
Enlightenment, my jaw dropped. Was amazed at the X and is one reason i look at
linux as having a high potential. Except, enlightenment is ontop of gnome and
gnome is very, let's say, buggy in my opinion (i.e. my mouse cursor) falls off
the screen)
> No icons appear for the DOS partitions.
think this is because you don't have any /dev/hd*'s for those partitions.
needed to create another 10-20 for my win98 partitions. There are usually only
16 /dev/hd* 's created by default. (eh, eh, had about 30 hda's. which means
i had to create about 15 of them, think now it's no problem for the icons as
well as access). Now, if your talking about the "?" icon that you have for
them, that's another story. For I really had "NO" icons for my non-present
/dev/hd* files!
>
> Food for thoughts: it would be nice if someone
> funded a setup somewhere in the world to do REAL QA and usability
> studies for all Linux distributions where inexperienced users could
> try their hand at installing and using Linux...
But linux is free. How do you propose to do this? I do know of one very good
place. It's called Universities and Colleges. They do this stuff all the time!
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