I must admit that though I'm quite familiar with Windows, I had a few difficulties when switching to Ubuntu; the GUI is clean and easy enough to figure out, but I was very unfamiliar with much of the terminology. The homepage assigned to Firefox at first use was extremely helpful in guiding me to the forums, where the Absolute Beginner Talk forum helped me get started.
I do agree that more attention should be drawn to the web forums and other resources at startup- if only a popup with links to helpful documentation. Perhaps it could periodically popup until the user disables it. But the beauty of Ubuntu, in my opinion, is the clean look and absence of all those annoying extras that made me think about switching in the first place. Oh btw I noticed the age of the last post- is this topic still relevant? I have found that if I click the big blue question mark icon on the taskbar in Hardy, the first topic I see is; New To Ubuntu? When selected a lovely menu with links to 'Basic computer skills', 'An over view of your desktop and how to use it', 'The role of the administrator', and 'If you've been using windows' appears. Perhaps a popup drawing attention to this icon would suffice? More links could be added to the menu as well... ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14981426/Screenshot.png -- Some New Users have a hard time switching to Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
