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Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review
Marcus Thiesen writes "Debian Installer Beta 3 was released two days ago and I wrote a small review concerning the installation part. The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution. Nontheless there are a few usability things and I thought that it might be a good idea to write a walkthrough from another point of view: Bob 'average' User."
The Debian Installer can install Slackware then?
Hate me!
What happened to Joe User? Did he finally wise up about using GUIs and get fired or something? I never really liked Joe User, anyway (I mean, what an idiot!), I'm just curious.
True story.
an oxymoron? :P
Complete with linux 2.2.20 and XFree86 4.1.0.
So this is where RedHat 5.x installer went to... I was wondering what happened to it.
In fact, why not use the Gentoo installer? It's installed Gentoo perfectly for me two times out of three! Whereas all the Debian installer did for me is install Debian... oh and Xfree didn't work by default. And since this was in my early struggles with linux, when I found out that the gui didn't work and that I didn't have a clue how the configuration file for Xfree worked (much less which part was broken), I just went on to Slackware. Of course, until it stopped working with my soundcard one reboot, then I moved on to... *sigh* I love changing Linux distros around... maybe I should write a song.
Debian is usually an elitist group of users.
Come now, we are not elitist, we are simply elite.
We do not seek Nirvana, we are already there.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
Though the earlier screen had told him that his selection would affect his location he was still at the same place, in front of his old PC. ...and...
But it didn't matter as he just had deleted his Windows 98 with fdisk.
The "average user" is happy to see that the computer didn't teleport him somewhere else, but can still figure out Windows 98 fdisk???
Online reviews would be much better if we could moderate by throwing rotten fruit at the author...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
You mean 30 pages of help files and a command prompt?
i'm 99% certain this was just desperate wishful thinking on behalf of the debian geeks.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
The main problem that he had was that he had to think twice what to do next. He was given two options which didn't fit. What he wanted to do was to actually install a Linux, he didn't need any help and wasn't quite sure what "boot" would do.
Hmm... if I'm not quite sure what "boot" would do, and I know I want to install Linux, but it's not an obvious option, I'd take that as an indication that maybe I need help, and press F1. Geez, even my mother would press F1 at that point.
Hehe. Speaking of usability of google, I've seen someone who had there IE homepage set to google (someone else must have set it for her) and everytime she wanted to go to a web address she would type it into google. Like, she would search for www.cnn.com and of course the first result would be what she wanted. Little did she know that there was an address bar...
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No, but I can imagine it...
Select system type:
- Apple
- Apple
- Apple
Select case color:Select case style:
Select mouse type:
[Abort] [Finish]
I had a customer call up once, incensed that "There were other realtors listed on her web site!" Sure enough, she was typing her address into MSN, rather than the address bar.
Bob "Average" user wants to perform the following steps:
1. Buy PC
2. Plug PC into electrical outlet
3. Have PC "Geek" friend connect it to the Internet
4. Surf porn and play video games
Bob "Average" user DOES NOT want to install new Linux distributions for the fun of it. Bob has other things to do.
Let Bob use a PC with pre-installed Lycoris, Lindows. It's OK Really! That's all he wants!