Where Can Linux Leap Ahead - Part 2
In this series of articles, I discuss broad groups of computer users, the ties they have to existing platforms, and the potential attractions of Linux to them.
View ArticleUsability in Open Source Software
Celeste Lyn Paul is Senior Interaction Architect for User-Centered Design, Inc., organizes the KDE Usability Project, and works with open source projects such as KDE, Linux Foundation, OpenUsability,...
View ArticleEnso Has Been Liberated
Having to change programs to perform simple tasks—for example, making a quick calculation, or looking up a definition—breaks your concentration, takes you away from the task at hand, and wastes your...
View ArticleThe #1 Problem in OSS Usability and What I’m Going to Do About It
I was doing some research on a paper I am writing about open source usability practices when it hit me: Lack of user research is the #1 problem in open source usability
View ArticlegNewSense Review: Freedom 10/10 - Usability for tested Tasks 9/10
"...I have been unwilling to get involved with this debate [which is currently in progress on Manchester Free Software Group's mailing list] from an argumentative perspective, because it seems to me...
View ArticleWhy FOSS is still so unusable
Randall Kennedy examines why the FOSS community doesn't seem to care whether you find any value in its projects.
View ArticlePopularity VS Usability
We see blog posts and articles everywhere. They proclaim that Distro X has the most users. Distro B has the most hits on a site that lists distros. Distro C is the top because Linus or some other "Geek...
View ArticleOpenOffice.org 3.1's Usability Tweaks
It hit the servers [a few] days ago, but OpenOffice.org 3.1 is now in official release. The open-source office suite focused on anti-aliased drawing and usability tweaks for this release, which we've...
View ArticleThe GNU/Linux Desktop and Borrowed Assumptions about Usability
Is the GNU/Linux desktop headed in the right direction? Recently, I have started to wonder.
View ArticleThe problem with Gentoo
I’d like to say that I see Gentoo as a distribution that should allow me to easily use my computer whilst keeping configuration as flexible as possible. Of course with customisation we often get a...
View ArticleKDE4 overtaking GNOME in terms of usability?
Whereas GNOME so far made sacrifices to flexibility and power in order to improve usability KDE4 is succeeding in having its cake and eating it too. They merge flexibility with ingenious design to...
View ArticleGain Space By Removing The Maximized Windows Titlebar [Linux w/ Compiz or...
If you ever used Google Chrome - and you must have -, then you might have noticed how much vertical space you can gain by removing the window title bar. Yes Google Chrome has a titlebar, but as an...
View ArticleKDE Usability Goals for 2010
Some of the things I would like to get done in the next few months include:
View ArticleLinux is not hard, it's ignored
It's a regular complaint: Linux is too hard. But is it hard, or are there other factors at play?
View ArticleWashing the windows myths. Ease of use.
Linux is only for geeks. Windows is easy to use. Linux is hard. You have to use the command line under Linux. You never need to use the console under windows. Windows is all point and click. You have...
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