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Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend

Posted by kdawson on from the sleeping-on-the-couch-tonight dept.

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."

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  1. BS by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's more like the guy wants to trumpet to the world, "Look! I have a girlfriend! No really!" He even includes her photo, the sure tipoff. If he had just wanted a novice computer user, he could have used anyone else - but no, here it is linked from Slashdot in all its glory, and he can brag to everyone about his point-and-lick interface.

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