That's why we need the out-of-the-box experience as you said, in order to be
the general public distribution. User should be able to use the distro
without any terminal command, in my opinion. That's the must for the most
ordinary users, who just want to browse the internet and watch the movies
etc. That's why Ubuntu is so popular.
I have a couple suggestions for Trisquel.
Ubuntu has it's Ubuntu software center, which is a easy to use GUI for
purchasing and installing the software. Only problem is the proprietary
software, that is being promoted by Ubuntu. We in turn, already have the
"Add/Remove Application", which is the great starting point. But we should
modify it to be more user friendly and easy to use, "Trisquel's Freedom
Store" in which developers could upload their piece of software, with or
without a price tag. There also should be included the most used applications
provided by Trisquel.
Another important thing to improve is the "applications startup menu", or
whatever you like to call it. What we have at the moment is only the list of
different categories whereof user can choose from. What we need is, more like
CInnamon-like startup menu, in which you have the greater options and
functions. The most important one is the search bar, which helps you to find
a specific app or a file from your system. That's the features that many
ordinary user's would like to see happen.
It would be my pleasure to introduce these kind of ideas to the dev team of
Trisquel and maybe to take part to the implementation. Atleast I could do
some of it myself and then show it to the devs.
