So, the testing done on this "usability study" was really basic user-level stuff.
The test missed this study...
We asked a home user to plug in his USB cd-burner and get it going on both systems.
Microsoft : 20 mins
KDE: We'll let you know once the test subject finishes counselling.
The KDE test subject blew a gasket while trying to enable USB support, after scouring the web for 3 hours for directions on HOW to enable the USB support.
He gleened information from 4 different sources, selecting criteria based on the user's signature to their post on the messageboard as to who's looked "kookiest" and which had the most wit. One was selected sheerly on the quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail in the signature.
At one point he needed to have his keyboard replaced because he was repeatedly induced to vomit by disturbing color schemes...
Figuring that the most unreadable sig. was most l334, he followed that advice, and found himself inside the Fort Knox security system. Once inside the Fort Knox security system, it required that he go to/usr/local/dl/leenexex/strnlgg and modify the file thnode.properties to match that of the Fort Knox system*
Multiple times he scoured the net for such common terms as grep, ps -ef and prop.conf.
When asked to perform a rm -f upon the/opt/dir/bin/lins directory he fell to the floor and began sobbing like a small child.
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So, the testing done on this "usability study" was really basic user-level stuff. The test missed this study...
/usr/local/dl/leenexex/strnlgg and modify the file thnode.properties to match that of the Fort Knox system*
/opt/dir/bin/lins directory he fell to the floor and began sobbing like a small child.
We asked a home user to plug in his USB cd-burner and get it going on both systems.
Microsoft : 20 mins KDE: We'll let you know once the test subject finishes counselling.
The KDE test subject blew a gasket while trying to enable USB support, after scouring the web for 3 hours for directions on HOW to enable the USB support.
He gleened information from 4 different sources, selecting criteria based on the user's signature to their post on the messageboard as to who's looked "kookiest" and which had the most wit. One was selected sheerly on the quote from Monty Python's Holy Grail in the signature.
At one point he needed to have his keyboard replaced because he was repeatedly induced to vomit by disturbing color schemes...
Figuring that the most unreadable sig. was most l334, he followed that advice, and found himself inside the Fort Knox security system. Once inside the Fort Knox security system, it required that he go to
Multiple times he scoured the net for such common terms as grep, ps -ef and prop.conf.
When asked to perform a rm -f upon the
*(Fort Knox admin was unavailable for comment)