Believe me or not, after interacting with people of different ages in field, I came to a conclusion, the 'alien interface' thing nothing but a mental barrier and it is more common with people who 'memorized' the computer operation than 'learning' it. I think 'Will of learning' is the thing they lack than new interface or anything.
I have seen people who can locate a particular folder under 'Program Files' in Windows, but got puzzled when he try to open Openoffice Writer right under their nose. They can open Control Panel to tweak things and found too hard to locate 'System' menu just in front their eyes. I can't categorize this kind of behavior anything but 'Memorizing over Learning' syndrom which we adopt from our education system, intensely developed by the colonial rulers to produce some 'Educated Slaves', from very early age. (One of our member here, Goutom Roy is an active researcher and expert in BD education by profession. He is way well capable of explaining these things than myself.) In my personal opinion, what people denoted 'comfort with old interface' is technically a 'fear of new thing'. I don't think inforcing such baseless fear would be a smart idea. Spending time to find and develop stargies to help those people to overcome this illogical fear is far more worth spending than designing a 'look a like' interface. We cannot get 'freedom' with mocking 'slavery' by naming it 'comfort'. A drug addict has more 'comfort' with using drugs. Will encouraging to be more 'comfortable' be a suitable solution for them? I don't think so. My insight says, 'suppressing' a problem is not a 'good solution' than 'solving' it. --- Shabab Mustafa Liaison Person Ubuntu Bangladesh https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Shabab -- Ubuntu Bangladesh https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
