I put this comment here as I think that it is an good example of a problem throughout the site.
I guess that this is technically supposed to be English, but to me this might as well be a large flashing sign saying - "techies only - all others not welcome."
If you have a Mac this is probably the second or third ROX page you will see.
1: Nice front page - screen shots "ROX is a fast, user friendly desktop". Great, so it's for non techies! Click on "Help Installing"
2:"These pages gives detailed installation instructions for installing ROX on various distributions." Good - just what I need. Click on "MacOS X"
3: What? What's a sudo?
Now if ROX is only intended as a toy for an in-crowd - why is it presented as an easy to use interface? If it isn't ready for the general public (if you don't know what sudo is it's not for you) why do you let people mess their computers up by not stating that on the front page?
I'm guessing that it's just an issue of sloppy site design, if not then it's evidence of coding for coders and forgetting your target audience.
If I sound annoyed it's just that ROX seems to be everything that is needed as a interface - if only it and it's applications could be installed easily.
BTW I do know what sudo is but 99.99% of humanity does not.
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I put this comment here as I think that it is an good example of a problem throughout the site.
I guess that this is technically supposed to be English, but to me this might as well be a large flashing sign saying - "techies only - all others not welcome."
If you have a Mac this is probably the second or third ROX page you will see.
1: Nice front page - screen shots "ROX is a fast, user friendly desktop". Great, so it's for non techies! Click on "Help Installing"
2:"These pages gives detailed installation instructions for installing ROX on various distributions." Good - just what I need. Click on "MacOS X"
3: What? What's a sudo?
Now if ROX is only intended as a toy for an in-crowd - why is it presented as an easy to use interface? If it isn't ready for the general public (if you don't know what sudo is it's not for you) why do you let people mess their computers up by not stating that on the front page?
I'm guessing that it's just an issue of sloppy site design, if not then it's evidence of coding for coders and forgetting your target audience.
If I sound annoyed it's just that ROX seems to be everything that is needed as a interface - if only it and it's applications could be installed easily.
BTW I do know what sudo is but 99.99% of humanity does not.