I hope that at least Ubuntu is reading this. Because when the user goes over this hurdle - a major hurdle for most –, I believe that most users will actually STAY in the platform rather than running away after the 10-minute geek tour of “that thing called linux”. If installing the MP3 codec, also install the required Gnome mp3 profile so users can actually rip in MP3 with Sound Juicer.Īccording to our poll and some good guessing, here is the list of software that distros must work towards easily installing them and make the lives of their NEW users easier. If the user says “yes”, show the license agreement that waives the distro from any legal problems and download/install the requested software. Sound Juicer, Rhythmbox, Banshee, XMMS, Totem) to inform the user why they can’t play these files and ask if he/she wants to download the codecs. wmv, have patched your multimedia apps (e.g. Show a license agreement that waives the distro off any legal problems and then download and install the requested software.Ģ. Via a GUI app found on the /Administration menu that lists the 10 most wanted proprietary applications and asks the user to check the boxes of the apps he wants to install. It is the time to do so!Īnd that easy solution must work in a similar way to this:ġ. This is an issue that at least the big-5 distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake) must provide an easy solution to. These hurdles contribute in a big way to some users who try Linux distros to go back to Windows running scared. These are major hurdles for new users, even if they sound trivial to most tech-oriented OSNews readers. But even in this case, the user must know of its existence and must know how to install it in the first place. In the case of Ubuntu also exists an easy-to-use utility that will download most of these apps for you and install them.
Interesting enough to push Linux’s market share if a distro capitalized on them? Right now, the users of the 3-5 most popular Linux distros have to either search the internet for guides like this one in order to get an idea how to install non-free software, or they have to figure out how to use the distro’s package management and how to enable certain repositories. We had over 8,000 votes in that poll and we consider the results pretty interesting.
A few months ago we ran a poll about the most important non-free Linux apps.
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