On 09/04/12 12:22, Barry Drake wrote: > On 08/04/12 20:41, Alan Pope wrote: >> Interesting feedback Barry. I certainly didn't expect this, but then I >> naïvely expected people on this list to have taken a look at 12.04 >> previously, and be familiar with the basics. Thanks for highlighting this. > > Maybe a bit of over-reaction on my part. But I've spent the last couple > of years moving ordinary non-computer literate Windows folk over to > Ubuntu. My wife, my sister various friends etc. My sister's > stepdaughter was horrified - 'Linux is for geeks ...' Then she took a > look at it and realised that Ubuntu is very user-friendly. For her many > sins, she now works for Spec-Savers .... need I say more .... > > The thing is, I've trained myself to think like a non-geek who is > familiar with Microsoft Windows, and is now using Ubuntu. Thinking in > that way rules out words like 'panel', 'dash', 'launcher' and many many > more as well as program names such as nautilus. If my friend Heidi > phones, I'm not going to say 'Open the dash ... ' but rather, left > click on the top icon on the column on the left of your screen, then > left click the icon at the bottom that looks a bit like a ruler and two > candles' (what on earth the apps icon is supposed to be is quite beyond > me .... ). And by the way, isn't a 'window' something for looking out > of? Get the drift? If we keep checking ourselves, we'll be amazed how > much geek-speak we use. > > Having said all that, just as soon as my Raspberry Pi arrives, I'm going > to be in the local school trying to make sure that the next generation > gets kick-started in real computer literacy just as my son and I were > with the Sinclair ZX81 ..... ah, those were the days.
My experience and approach is very close indeed to Barry's -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
