Switching from Windows

[Jordan Mantha]

On 4/10/06, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> I was catching up on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SwitchingFromWindows from changes
> that have been made over the weekend and it appears the document has moved
> from helping out both Ubuntu users and Kubuntu users to being Ubuntu
> specific.
> First I am curious as to why it has moved this way and Kubuntu was left out.
> The second thing and I would like to re-propose this for Dapper +1 that we
> create guides that help out both Kubuntu and Ubuntu users.  This can be done
> the same as the desktop guide is done and should be done.

This brings up an issue that occurred to me as I was writing the
packaging guide. I want to write in a neutral way as much as possible.
The question that came to mind is how should refer to "Ubuntu the
umbrella" as opposed to "Ubuntu the Gnome-based version". I tend to
use Ubuntu in the umbrella meaning, mostly since I'm a MOTU and it is
all the same repo to me. If I want to refer to something specific to
Gnome I tend to use "Gnome" but I'm not sure if that is confusing to
new users (I imagine it would be). What do you guys think about making
a distinction in our terminology (maybe it is already there and I
missed it)?

-Jordan