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Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend
toomin writes "Reviews of the latest Ubuntu version, 8.04 Hardy Heron, are everywhere, but most of them are undertaken by geeks familiar with Linux. This guy sits his girlfriend down at a brand-new Ubuntu installation and asks her to perform some basic tasks. Some of them are surprisingly easy, others frustrate and annoy. There are lots of little usability tweaks he stumbles upon just by seeing the desktop experience from the point of view of the mainstream user."
Or get supported hardware made by vendors who are actually willing to cooperate with the Linux developers, numbnuts. Are you gonna complain that Ubuntu doesn't support your winmodem, too?
Yes, but unlike most Linux users, my time has value. I don't care how easy it is to reinstall a bootloader, the simple fact is that I don't want it to fuck with my bootloader in the first place.
To say it doesn't mess with my system, then follow that up with "oh it messes with your bootloader" is pretty deceitful, BTW.
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