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Re: GNOME nowRe: GNOME nowPosted Nov 29, 2012 10:00 UTC (Thu) by russell (subscriber, #10458)Parent article: Re: GNOME now
I've been watching how my kids (5, 7 and 9) use our computers. They prefer GNOME 2 and have tweaked everything you could imagine. To them it's magic, it gives them power, a sense of accomplishment, and OWNERSHIP. They share tweaks with each other and help each other out.
No one can tell me options and tweaks are bad or hard. The kids figured it out themselves, even the 5 year old. They now argue over who gets the fedora 14 machine, the loser get fedora 17 and GNOME 3.
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Re: GNOME now Posted Nov 29, 2012 10:21 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Install KDE in one of those machines and tell them Santa's came to town! (I am a [heavily-customized] KDE user :-D)
Re: GNOME now Posted Nov 29, 2012 10:32 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] it gives them … OWNERSHIPYes. Indeed aren't there well-known, widely-regarded books in HCI (or is it marketing?) which discuss the importance of allowing customisation precisely for this reason - so the user feels the product/device is theirs and develops an attachment to it?
Re: GNOME now Posted Nov 29, 2012 11:46 UTC (Thu) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
I second the above comment. On a netbook with Gnome3, XFCE, LXDE and KDE our son when he was 6 ended up with using KDE. He had been using it without switching to anything else AFAIK for the last 8 months.
Re: GNOME now Posted Dec 3, 2012 11:55 UTC (Mon) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
> To them it's magic, it gives them power, a sense of accomplishment, and OWNERSHIP. They share tweaks with each other and help each other out.
Yep, I remember doing the same thing with my brother when we were growing up. It was a fun activity, and a good way to gradually start to figure out how this stuff all worked.
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