[Mageia-discuss] Mageia review with bad experience

Tue Oct 11 21:35:43 CEST 2011

Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 23:37 +0200, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+> Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011, 23:29:08 schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> > With the problem of having experienced people leaving, because "mandrake
+> > is a distribution for newbie, i am not a newbie, therefor, mandrake is
+> > not for me". This surely helped debian or fedora to get contributers.
+> > 
+> Yes, that's why I always pressed at the linux events I was present, that in 
+> the past Mandrake/Mandriva and now Mageia is a distribution, that makes it 
+> easy for newbies to start, but isn't holding back anything for experienced 
+> users.
+> Other than yast did in the past and still does in parts, the draktools don't 
+> overwrite any configuration but parses it correctly.
+> 
+> We have to make it clear, that we do care about newbies but we don't "lay any 
+> stones in the way" of experienced users.
+> After all, if we did, most of us wouldn't use it, would we?
+
+As I may have said before, Apple do it right, they do not say the word
+newbie or beginner at all, see their website.
+
+So someone reading Apple marketing material will think of simplicity, or
+a system that doesnt get in the way, but it doesn't think "that's great
+for people that know nothing to computer". Apple prepared a narrative
+explaing the elegance, the power, etc.
+
+The simple evocation of "beginner" will make people think about a
+separation between newbie and experts ( what psychologists call a
+framing effect, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX5v0uwNjc ). If we
+speak of newbie, then people will feel sooner or later the need to find
+their position on this supposed separation, with the problem we
+highlighted. 
+
+And so I think we should simply ban the word from our official
+communication.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+