Linux Lite Development - Our goals and how to get involved.

[Mr Plod]

Our target audience are Windows users. We want to show people that a linux based operating system can:

1. Be simple to use.

Unfortunately, this is where it will fail. If you want to target Windows users you need to learn about those users. Not look at Windows and emulate it, but learn what it's users actually want / need from an OS and why they 'think' that they have no other choice.
Basic LL functions are 'simple to use'. But, step sideways in any direction and it's like stepping back 20 years.
I'm sorry to be critical, but Windows users will not be comfortable with leaving a world of search and click to that of DOS like screens and copy & pasting code. (What is a Terminal anyway?). They will stick with what know because it is 'very simple to use'.
There are some aspects of LL that are great. I really love the Synaptic Package Manager (what a strange name), but I can't use it because the only way that I can get a signal from my Wifi is to strap it to the bottom of my Lappy. Why?..... I don't know. And neither does any one on here!
That could bring me on to the subject of support. But, I'm not going there.... I'm going back to Microsoft instead. Because it works!