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There are no non-power users of Ubuntu or any Linux distro targeted at the desktop. None. Maybe that will change someday; however I think the idea should be to
by bluedanieru 15y ago
There are no non-power users of Ubuntu or any Linux distro targeted at the desktop. None. Maybe that will change someday; however I think the idea should be to get people proficient with their PCs to the point that they demand more from their OS rather than just giving them any old POS that's easy to use and can't do shit, we already have Windows for that.
I don't think Unity is a step in that direction.
If they target "non-power Linux users", a mythical creature indeed, at the expense of power users (i.e. everyone who uses the fucking thing atm) they are more than shooting themselves in the foot, they are blowing their damn brains out.
It remains to be seen what happens with Unity though, some people do like it.
- Wilya 15y agoHu ? By my count, there are quite a lot of people who have low interest in maintaining a computer and want things to just work on Ubuntu (far less so on other distributions). People who had to use linux for a school project, people who just stumbled on an evangelist at some point, and blindly obeyed the "Install linux, it's better, you will see !!" stuff. Or just people who were a little bit curious. I see plenty of people around me that don't know (and have low interest in learning) how to do much more than fire up firefox, and who still run Ubuntu. If these are power users, then I'm a sysadmin god.
- hollerith 15y ago>People who had to use linux for a school project, people who just stumbled on an evangelist at some point, and blindly obeyed the "Install linux, it's better, you will see !!" stuff. Or just people who were a little bit curious. Also, wives and aged parents of Linux techies.
- sandGorgon 15y agoyup - and both of mine hate unity as compared to Ubuntu 10.10.