Website & download

[Ryan Gauger]

On 06/05/2012 08:16 AM, ???? wrote:
> 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
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> If you approve this it could be moved "one folder up" and set it as 
> GetLubuntu default.
>
> Do you like it?
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> 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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I don't know what others think, but I love the added images.
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