Feedback from What New Users Want BoF at ubucon

[Corey Burger]

On 8/24/06, Petr Tomeš <ptomes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/8/24, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>:
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> > On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:24 AM, Corey Burger wrote:
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> > > On 8/20/06, Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > >> On Sa, 2006-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > >>> On 8/19/06, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > ...
> > >>>> On Fr, 2006-08-18 at 16:52 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> The other issue was that of the LiveCd. Once you get into the
> > >>>>> desktop, it is not apparently clear that you are running a LiveCD.
> > > ...
> > >> May I ask what the root of this issue is? Did the user expect that
> > >> their changes would be permanently? If yes, I think that both
> > >> solutions won't be sufficient.
> > >
> > > The issue was that users were totally unaware that they were on a
> > > LiveCD as there was not indication.
> >
> > I think that's begging the question. It's missing the mental step that
> > many people new to Linux distributions will have to go through: "What
> > on earth is a 'live CD'? Is the other CD a dead one?"
> >
> > In the Breezy cycle I suggested renaming the live CD to the "Test Drive
> > CD", which would eliminate that step.
>
> I fully agree here. This is a big problem even in Czech language and
> Czech Republic. The people we are spoking here have no idea what the
> "LiveCD" mean. :(
>
> What about "LaunchCD" or "LaunchableCD". This exactly describes what
> it actually does.

There official is no Live CD anymore, it is called the Desktop CD and
has been as of the release of Dapper. I wonder if that might be part
of the issue.

Corey