On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:02, Pierre Jarillon wrote:
> Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 11:57, Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit :
> 
> > I still fail to see why people start "installing software" to see
> > installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given
> > program for a given task, isn't it? I launche "installing
> > software" when I want to install software..
> 
> You are a developper, and your brain doesn't work as the brain of a 
> single user. During 22 years I had to experiment this.
> For example, 3 years were necessary to find the good sentence for a question
> which was not ambiguous in every case.
> It is really difficult to think like a newbie. IMHO you have not see a true 
> newbie for a while. Thanks to ABUL http://abul.org/  I have still some 
> contacts with newbies and sometimes I feel a lack of patience with them !
> But newbies are our new users and we have to take care of them.
> 
> Ask for some people in the street to test Mandrake 9.1. Experience this.
> Sure you'll be surprised. 

This was an excellent post.  Your points are well taken.

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