2011/10/11 Michael Scherer <[email protected]>: > Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 23:37 +0200, Oliver Burger a écrit : >> Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011, 23:29:08 schrieb Michael Scherer: >> > With the problem of having experienced people leaving, because "mandrake >> > is a distribution for newbie, i am not a newbie, therefor, mandrake is >> > not for me". This surely helped debian or fedora to get contributers. >> > >> Yes, that's why I always pressed at the linux events I was present, that in >> the past Mandrake/Mandriva and now Mageia is a distribution, that makes it >> easy for newbies to start, but isn't holding back anything for experienced >> users. >> Other than yast did in the past and still does in parts, the draktools don't >> overwrite any configuration but parses it correctly. >> >> We have to make it clear, that we do care about newbies but we don't "lay any >> stones in the way" of experienced users. >> After all, if we did, most of us wouldn't use it, would we? > > As I may have said before, Apple do it right, they do not say the word > newbie or beginner at all, see their website. > > So someone reading Apple marketing material will think of simplicity, or > a system that doesnt get in the way, but it doesn't think "that's great > for people that know nothing to computer". Apple prepared a narrative > explaing the elegance, the power, etc. > > The simple evocation of "beginner" will make people think about a > separation between newbie and experts ( what psychologists call a > framing effect, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX5v0uwNjc ). If we > speak of newbie, then people will feel sooner or later the need to find > their position on this supposed separation, with the problem we > highlighted. > > And so I think we should simply ban the word from our official > communication.
I also used (with Mandriva and Mageia) to make a point that these distributions cater to all kind of users, be they on beginner, experienced or expert level. But I see the advantage to leave this out of our "marketing". The better path would be to call it "straight forward, just what you want it to be". -- wobo
