Hi, today I made an experiment which for me is difficult to do: I showed Ubuntu 12.04 beta to a person (about 70 years old) completely new to computers (only used the mouse to click through a set of photos so far but that's it). I only know a very few people of this type because most already have used computers.
I have seen a lot of funny and interesting behaviour (like hit the key with the pipe character written on it instead of i ;-) ) - but here the relevant results in very short: a) The unity launchers - because of the size and because they are quadratic were the only things easy to click for the person with low mouse experience level. I am sure rectangular size - e.g. on traditional taskbars would have been more difficult to click. b) Without explanations - whatever Operating System - a complete newbie person cannot learn only on his/her own. There needs to be a person that explains. Not to talk about administration. A newbie with low experience level will never administrate the computer on his/her own. There must be a person with higher experience level helping out and doing this for everyone who just wants to do a few things (or must do). This draws a very important conclusion for me - confirming my belly feeling somehow: The operating system must try to minimize the annoyance for that guy behind everything. The person that needs to help out the core family and a dozen of friends! - That usually are IT people or at least the very technical interested guy/girl. SO FOCUS ON THOSE PEOPLE MORE THAN YOU FOCUS ON THE NEW USERS! If the guy/girl that needs to administrate, hates the OS he/she will install something else and the user needs to adapt. c) Most websites are far more complicated than the base operating system. Navigating those sites is far more hassle. Simple example: First attempt on the first found website was to click on a quadratic bullet that was used there instead of the link text next to it - of course the bullet looked more similar to the Unity launchers. ;-) - Not to talk about organization of the websites (each different and often information very hidden - in many cases the newbie would loose the most hours here). Best regards, Martin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
