To use Linux, especially when using user-friendly Ubuntu flavours, doesn't require to become a power user, it only requires a bit of self-responsibility and the willingness to learn a few basics. If an issue appears, start learning, continue step by step! Even without much learning, many users automatically become power users after a while. Again, if you make a skateboard usable for those who need a wheel worker, the skateboard would not be a skateboard anymore, so you never could perform skateboard tricks using this skateboard. Apart from this, the modified skateboard still wouldn't fit that good to somebody who needs a wheel walker, than a real wheel walker. It's the same for proprietary operating systems and Linux. Note, Ubuntu flavours provide already that many user-friendly features, that many power users and other experts migrated to non-user-friendly distros, because using the advantages of Linux is much easier, if a distro doesn't assume some averaged user's needs. My daily Linux is Arch Linux. For example, it takes less time to enable the services I need, after installing Arch Linux Packages, than to disable services that are counterproductive for my needs, after installing Ubuntu packages. There are already different Linux distros available, actually even the boot-partition-kernel-issue for Ubuntu flavours is solved for new releases. At some point it's simply easier to update to a newer Ubuntu release, than to backport. If taking a look at Ubuntu Wiki and help pages is too much, to get rid of a stuffed boot partition and release upgrades should be to complicated, than at least the latter is an argument not to make the distro more user-friendly, but for the user, to chose another distro. Ubuntu _is_ a release model distro. Ubuntu _did/does_ fix issues, such as the boot-partition-kernel-issue for new releases and soon or later even LTS releases reach end of life.
To make Linux usable for people who are completely uninterested in learning is bad. You can't have healthy eating, if you want potato crisps and Cola. You can't perform skateboard tricks, if you replace the skateboard with a wheel walker. -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
