Just to chime in. Technically, FreeDOS is not for the novice. I wouldn't expect my wife or daughter to be able to install it and then figure out what to do with a prompt.
Therefore, I suggest you try and understand your user base and gear it towards those individuals instead of trying to make it appear (mask) as a user friendly OS. On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 3:27 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 3:14 PM tom ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > > > > 1. Browse the website to find where to download FreeDOS > > > > that's absolutely impressing. > > > > your testing goal is to 'download freedos' and you put a link to 'download > > freedos' on the first visible screen. > > > > as I understand, the result was less then 100%. > > > > have you tested this with people, or with chimpanses? > >[..] > > Tom, can you please not insult others? Your "chimpanzees" comment here > is intentionally insulting to testers. You can do better. > > It is enlightening what people click on during a usability test. In > the one usability test I observed, the tester clicked on the "Download > FreeDOS" link on the front page, which was correct. But on the > "Download" page, they seemed overwhelmed with the options (LiveCD, > LegacyCD, BonusCD, LiteUSB, FullUSB, floppy-only) so they skipped > ahead to the yellow box that mentioned how most people run FreeDOS in > a virtual machine. That box has links to different virtual machines, > and icons for each operating system that the VM runs on (for example: > VirtualBox runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux). And the tester I observed > said "well, I run a Mac, so I'll click on VirtualBox." > > This kind of feedback helps improve the website. > > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
