Recently, Canonical released Herd 5, the last alpha release of Ubuntu 7.04. Masuran.org took a quick look at this preview release, and concluded: "Ubuntu 7.04 will be a very sweet release. I can only hope that the new Gnome Control Center will be the default instead of the current menu structure and that desktop effects like Beryl or Compiz get a more prominent place in this wonderful operating system."
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Member since:2006-08-18
Well anyone who considers Linux at this point is probably well adapted to Windows and it's advanced features. So new users probably know what they want when they switch but don't know the proper command incarnations to make it happen nor feel they should be forced to learn the CLI right away. After all DOS, however primitive it might have been, was the thing they remember using in the 1980's.
Anyway, I agree that an Advanced tab would be fine as long as it contained the GUI tools I mentioned. This does not seem to be the case today in most "newbie" distros.
SUSE, Mandriva, and to a lesser extent, Fedora have some of these tools but suffer from other problems like a poor package system, buggy releases or extreme dedication to FOSS principles (locking out restriced formats, closed drivers, or non-free software).
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2005-11-10
Isn't "advanced setup" exactly that, advanced. Therfore fine to be in the command line. If there's not a clear distinction between setting the wallpaper and editing conf files in the designer's mind, there's a problem there. A control panel should contain only that which the regular user is interested in, something more advanced should be hidden behind an advanced button in each prefpane, or a seperate app like YaST, or the command line.
If you're saying that there isn't a clear distinction between simple options and advanced options, well then Linux needs to hiring some proper User Interface engineers because OS X doesn't have a problem with that distinction.