Star Ubuntu 7.10 Pragmatic Visual Presentation Critique
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 25th Oct 2007 03:01 UTC, submitted by Farhad Shakiba
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu "The purpose of this article is not to emphasize the strengths and merits of Ubuntu user experience, but instead to shed a brighter light on areas that have been neglected due to shortage of time and resources, usability testing, and various software and artwork defects. I hope those who are sometimes overprotective of open-source software will take my recommendations with a pinch of salt and see this article for what it really tries to be: a vocal user experience report and constructive criticism."
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RE: Ummm...
by Laurence on Thu 25th Oct 2007 12:09 UTC in reply to "Ummm..."
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"I laugh reading this because with my operating system I totally have artifacts. I can afford a "Screw the picky user" attitude because... I don't care. There's a saying like 20% of the effort produces 80% of the result -- the spit-and-shine as the article refers to is no fun. I don't know about you, but I want to say screw the damn picky bastard users and if this guy was my boss I'd hate him.

You guys should be nice to the coders and stop worrying about desktop domination. If you never spent the 80% on spit and shine, you'd have 5 times as many cool features."


I do agree with your opinion to a degree, but developers sometimes forget that it's the 'spit and shine' that often attracts new users (OS X is an example of this). Unfortunately, the name of the game is to attract new users to keep projects (such as Ubuntu) running.

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