On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:51 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote: > > > Has anybody else been following this series? What are your thoughts? > > I've been reading some of it. I think he makes a number of a good points > but he also has the tendency to assume things will be complicated and > therefore goes for the complicated option first. The way he initially > installed WINE or the way he manually created a separate partition under > Windows in order to install Ubuntu side by side is another. > > It may be worth promoting the software centre more and position it as > being similar to an 'app store'. Linux users have been used to this for > ages so don't think about it anymore but for the larger population the > concept of the app store is new and they don't expect a desktop OS to > behave that way. > > Bruno > > >
+1 Personally, when I give help to people these days, which requires the installation of a new package, I always point them to Ubuntu Software Centre, if I know it is there. I haven't used Synaptic now for ages. If USC hasn't got it, I go straight for apt-get. The only thing I would like in USC is a more verbose mode to show what is happening during installation - maybe something like the download and console display in Update Manager. Tony -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
