Website & download

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Ok, doing some experiment. I edited a sub-page and put there our beloved
pictos (from Canoncial Design, I'm fuuuul standard compliant). The
content is the same, but I think it's a bit clear:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/download

If you approve this it could be moved "one folder up" and set it as
GetLubuntu default.

Do you like it?


El dl 04 de 06 de 2012 a les 13:24 +0100, en/na Mark Ballard va
escriure:

> I would like to give some feedback on a user's experience trying to
> download and install Lubuntu, if I may.
> 
> 
> 
> It's hard to find the download page. Clicking on "Get Ubuntu" takes
>  you to the help page. Then you have to rummage around on the site to
> find somewhere to actually download the version you need.
> 
> 
> When you do select to download, it gives you v12.04. Even after
> rummaging around not possible to see any other versions to download.
> 
> 
> The help page talks about other versions. It's information implies
> that 11.10 is the long-term release. But there appears to be nowhere
> to download the long-term release. The importance of short-term
> releases became apparent to users recently when, for example, they got
> shipwrecked with the short term release of Ubuntu before the Unity
> overhaul. Had they stuck with the long term release prior to that,
> they would not now be shipwrecked. Yes I am speaking from experience.
> But what's the point of having a long-term release if you don't make
> it clear to users that this is the most advisable version to download
> and then point them to it?
> 
> 
> The checksum info page contains info only about 11.10 checksums. But
> the site downloads 12.04.
> 
> 
> The checksum and torrent additions to the download process have really
> snarled things up for idiot users - sorry, you can't say that, can
> you? It's snarled things up for 'dummies'. No, you can't say that
> either, can you? Just because you are not an experienced command-line
> user, administrator or nerd hobbyist, that doesn't make you a dummy.
> But you are likely to have plenty else to do: looking after kids,
> working over-time, fixing the car, fending off zombies. So the install
> process requires that you learn about torrent clients and command
> lines and checksums. That's the last thing I need to do. That's
> eliminated most of the population of the planet as potential users
> straight off. Point and click, man. What's with all these
> complications?
> 
> 
> So anyway. What I needed: a guarantee that I've got a version that
> will work with the target machine: PIII, 256Mb; a long term release
> version; and on the advice of this website, a checksummed version.
> What I got: likelihood the version I've got doesn't work with my
> machine, a short term release version, and no checksum validation.
> 
> 
> On top of all that, I'm dizzy from going back and forth and round the
> website for the information I need to perform this simplest of
> operations: downloading a version to install.
> 
> 
>  

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