08-01-2017, 10:01 AM
After rereading my last post and reading your replies, I'd like to apologize to you all, especially Jerry, for being mean. I'm not usually such an a-hole when I not about to murder my computer.
That being said, fixing the installer, removing the checkboxes that ruin things, or at least putting some text on that screen to warn people should be on the list of things to do soon. Just pretend I said that much, much more tactfully last time and that it was more like constructive criticism than newbie rage-quit screaming.
It's cool that you're trying to make a Linux distro for new people. Thanks for putting forth the effort. It's a much needed thing in a world with Windows 10 in it. Just keep in mind that stupid newbies like me are totally at the mercy of the on screen instructions. It's not fair to expect us to know when to ignore them or do the opposite. If following the instructions is a mistake we can't do anything. You don't want to end up pushing newbies away because they assume the rest of LL is as broken as the installer or that Linux is just too difficult instead of giving them an OS they can use and trust. It's difficult to trust a system when your only experience with it has been a failure. If Windows had an installer or other things that wouldn't work because you followed the on screen instructions Linux users would probably never let Windows users hear the end of it.
I like a lot of what I've seen of LL from the live disc. The Lite software repo has useful programs, Systemback looks cool, Lite Tweaks is great, Xfce is very intuitive and customizable, and little things like the My Computer button on the start menu make it feel a little more familar to newbies coming from Windows. You've succeeded at a making a lot of things good and newbie friendly. Keep up the good work on all that.
Again, I'm very, very sorry for my rudeness and I'd like to thank bitsnpcs and trinidad for being nice to me even though I was a jerk and I'd like to thank Jerry and the LL team for working towards a newb-friendly distro.
That being said, fixing the installer, removing the checkboxes that ruin things, or at least putting some text on that screen to warn people should be on the list of things to do soon. Just pretend I said that much, much more tactfully last time and that it was more like constructive criticism than newbie rage-quit screaming.
It's cool that you're trying to make a Linux distro for new people. Thanks for putting forth the effort. It's a much needed thing in a world with Windows 10 in it. Just keep in mind that stupid newbies like me are totally at the mercy of the on screen instructions. It's not fair to expect us to know when to ignore them or do the opposite. If following the instructions is a mistake we can't do anything. You don't want to end up pushing newbies away because they assume the rest of LL is as broken as the installer or that Linux is just too difficult instead of giving them an OS they can use and trust. It's difficult to trust a system when your only experience with it has been a failure. If Windows had an installer or other things that wouldn't work because you followed the on screen instructions Linux users would probably never let Windows users hear the end of it.
I like a lot of what I've seen of LL from the live disc. The Lite software repo has useful programs, Systemback looks cool, Lite Tweaks is great, Xfce is very intuitive and customizable, and little things like the My Computer button on the start menu make it feel a little more familar to newbies coming from Windows. You've succeeded at a making a lot of things good and newbie friendly. Keep up the good work on all that.
Again, I'm very, very sorry for my rudeness and I'd like to thank bitsnpcs and trinidad for being nice to me even though I was a jerk and I'd like to thank Jerry and the LL team for working towards a newb-friendly distro.