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[Dan McGarry]

Jan Claeys wrote:
> 
> The voters on that site aren't typical linux users, they are mostly the
> type of people that have been using linux (and often also "other unix")
> for years.
> 
> And I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu has even less such users than many other
> distros; considering that we specifically target new users in our
> marketing (in addition to other users, of course).

Without necessarily disagreeing with this assertion, and at the risk of
going slightly off-topic: Has anyone demonstrated a correlation between
marketing and user demographic?

I ask because I see many design decisions being made based on this
assumption (some contentious, some not so), so it makes sense to ask:

1) Is this the actual demographic we're getting? *Is* this a 'newbie'
distro?

2) How are these design decisions actually affecting uptake?

This is a developers' list, but having heard so many moan (and not just
on slashdot) that devs and users are often far removed from one another,
it seems to make sense for developers here to do what they do best -
that is, to profile the system accurately, and to understand the
implications of their actions.

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Dan McGarry	it.psl at fsp.org.vu

IT Consultant
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