Website & download
紳癒礁湖
rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 5 16:57:14 UTC 2012
Sorry, I have to reason why I say what I say. Get the chair 1m and look
at your screen. There're FIVE bands across the webpage:
- the orange banner
- the title with editing links
- the blue main header
- the welcome
- and the first discs with explanations
It's a bit overbloated. The Ubuntu main site (downloads section) hasn't
the second and third ones, so your eyes drop directly to the arrow
information. I think we should do something similar.
What do you think?
El dt 05 de 06 de 2012 a les 16:15 +0100, en/na Phill Whiteside va
escriure:
> Renamed.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 5 June 2012 15:07, Mark Ballard <markjballard at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Not bad. I think it could be simplified by using less stuffing
> and more bullets. You can get rid of language like "choose
> this to take full advantage of...". It gives the impression
> that someone is trying to make an effort to couch this
> technospeak in terms that are easy to understand. But it
> doesn't actually add anything. It seems like redundant
> language. It is therefore clutter and hinders comprehension.
> But I can see what you are trying to say.
>
>
>
> So e.g. from:
>
>
> Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the
> AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T
> Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD,
> or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86
> images instead.
>
> To:
>
> Download version _y1_
> For 64-bit computers
> Includes guided install routine
>
>
> For computers with: Intel processors -> Pentium 4,
> Xeon, Core 2, (...)
> AMD processors ->
> Athlon64, Opteron (...)
>
>
> Additional information: This is the 64bit version of
> Lubuntu. It is designed
> to run on computers built
> using AMD64 or Intel EMT
> technology.
>
>
> 64-bit computers will
> also run the regular, 32-bit
> version of Lubuntu. But
> they will run more efficiently
> with this, 64-bit
> version.
>
>
> Do not install this
> version if you have a 32-bit
> computer: see <Download
> version _x1_> instead.
>
>
> Read more about deciding
> between
> the 64-bit and 32-bit
> version: <_>
>
>
> Support: This is the long-term support
> version of Lubuntu
> It will be supported
> until _.
> It is advised after that
> time that you upgrade Lubuntu.
>
>
> Requirements: RAM -> _Mb
> Hard disk ->
>
>
> Additional requirements
> to run guided install: RAM -> _Mb
>
>
> If your computer does not
> meet the requirements
> of the guided install,
> see <Alternate Install>
>
>
> .. and so on. (...) Specify every processor family on which
> this version will run. "Such as" must be forbidden: it
> ostracises all those not in the 'such as' category.
> Be encyclopaedic. Provide whatever other information may be
> necessary. Provide all the crucial details without grammatical
> clutter.
>
>
> The stuff about all the different versions can be rewritten
> into a functional style and put on another page. E.g. "Install
> an older version of Lubuntu <_>."
>
>
>
>
>
> On 5 June 2012 14:16, 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at gmail.com> 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
>
> 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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