On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 22:59:32 +0100 (WEST) Pedro Lino <pedro.l...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > On September 1, 2018 at 10:15 PM Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > > I am now using Opera 55 on Xubuntu 18.04.01 54 bit. Out of interest I > > accessed the download site and it wanted to download Linux 64-bit (x86-64) > > (RPM), whereas it should have been Linux 64-bit (x84-64) (DEB) > > > > My User Agent details are > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) > > Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36 OPR/55.0.2994.44 > > > > On a similar Xubuntu 18.04.01 64 bit machine, using Firefox I am offered OO > > Linux 64-bit (x86-64) (DEB) > > > > On that machine User Agent details are > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko /20100101; > > Firefox/61.0 > > Thank you for the feedback Rory! > That confirms that it's not a Firefox limitation and when Distro is not > specified it will default to RPM. > Does that make sense? > In any case it's probably safe to say that the majority of desktop Linux > users are running Ubuntu or a flavor/derivative (and those that aren't know > which package to get!) > > Regards, > Pedro It is a good point that one might expect distro users to know what package they want. This used be so, but experience on the en-Forum suggests that many less experienced users are now moving to linux distros as an alternative from other operating systems, and expect it to work "out of the box"; they do not bring any technical knowledge or to their use of computers. If this problem is not fixed, it will escalate; we should consider what causes it and try to find a solution. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
