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GNOME and Ubuntu usability issues

Submitted by sridharinfinity on Tue, 2005-04-19 11:32. Usability
Usability

Matthew Thomas discusses his experience with Ubuntu Linux. Meanwhile, he points out the problems with the famous distribution, which by default uses GNOME. Most of his concerns apply to GNOME as well. Read the full article.

Username and reboot are not technobabble

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-05-05 23:58.

That is a stupid assertion. Username and reboot are technical terms one needs to understand in order to use a computer. Practically everyone who is going to use a computer knows what they mean already. Even if they didn't, trying to disguise an inherently technical concept using nontechnical language is just misleading and more confusing. Should we say "restart"? Restart what?

A technical term that someone has to look up, is way better than a word someone knows that misleads them into doing the wrong thing. Stop trying to make it possible to use computers without learning anything. You make computers harder to use when you do that.

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