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The writer concluded that Linux needs to do more with wizards and pop-up instructions to help new users without a technical background successfully transition from Windows or Macintosh to the Linux desktop. Application installation was successful but audio playback problems prevented communication. Make an international phone call using Skype.
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Failed because Firefox was unable to install Flash player due to a malformed file. Move a photo of her head onto a photo of her boyfriend’s body using Photoshop. Again, no error message appeared to identify or fix the difficulty.ħ. Attempt failed because of a protocol problem. After several unsuccessful attempts, she succeeded by going to msn.com and inputting user data from her Windows Live Messenger account.ĥ.

But Fedora failed to identify all the output options.Ĥ. The first part was easy but the letter wouldn’t print and no error message appeared with a reason or resolution.ģ. Here are the tasks and how she fared on each one:ġ. The goal: to find out if a first-time Linux user, presumably a female college student, could accomplish nine familiar Windows tasks using Fedora 9, the community version of Red Hat. In the meantime, however, U.K.-based recently published Linux: The Girlfriend Test, and a tough test it was indeed.

Even Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux desktop, blogged about the shortcoming in a recent column and vowed to close the gap. Hope you enjoy this, and please check out the original article (a very interesting and funny read) that's referenced in the article below and a few paragraphs above.įedora gets mixed review in "girlfriend test"Įveryone agrees that the Linux desktop has a lot of work ahead to transform itself from a techie obsession to the intuitive, user-friendly desktop of a Macintosh or Windows machine. The test itself is fairly self-explanatory, but it's the account of one Linux writer's test of the user-friendliness of Fedora 9 using the perfect test subject: His girlfriend :) As the review of the original article notes (and this is one of the funnier parts, in my opinion), no mention was made of how the writer fared in the " boyfriend shopping test" ) It's actually a review of an original article entitled " Linux: The Girlfriend Test" from. This Saturday's over-sized slice of, possibly funny, Linux humour comes to use via ITKnowledgeExchange.
