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Ubuntu's Papercuts: Usability in Little Things
Ubuntu’s One Hundred Papercuts project seems to be progressing smoothly. On schedule, the first ten papercuts have been fixed.
Each of these bug fixes, though, is not just a bug fix. In many cases, significant attention was put into what wording to use or how large to make an object. For exmaple, when people’s unfamiliarity with the term “archive” was brought up, rather than just sticking in another unfamiliar term, real attention was put into finding the right phrasing for something most geeks find obvious but most normal people do not. That was probably the first time anyone in the Ubuntu project considered how to phrase something as small as this.
The big stuff needs attention, too, but it looks like the One Hundred Papercuts project might just bring the first real attention to the tiny details.
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I need my network to work.
After following some advice found on the web, I can ’see’ the xp machine, I can contact the router, I can not ’see’ files on the xp machine, nor can the xp machine sign in to the ubuntu machine.
Attempting to tightly follow the web advice has left me with not strictly knowing what the dude means, and having to speculatively download many items, (especially as I go from one advice person to another), and run into makefile errors and other non-intuituve stuff.
In winxp, you go to a wizard, which stores a file on a storage device, you take the storage device to another xp machine and plug it in. It is almost that automatic.
But the details of my problems are not the main point — the main point is that Ubuntu is not ready for prime time. It lacks an easy and sure way to set up a network, and does not come with the network stuff already installed, nor as an installation option.