Granny Smith would be pretty used to things looking wrong on her 1024x768 laptop - besides, a resolution that low indicates that the laptop is positively ancient. Would she be really looking to replace the OS on it? Even if she were, is this demographic even remotely large?
>His complaint is very valid in my opinion. Imagine Granny Smith being sent to that page and opening it on her 1024x768 notebook.
Why? What's the purpose of sending "Granny Smith" to that demo? She going to be really excited about the new OS and install it herself? Even if you do, she emails you and says it didn't work, so you...do what you did before. Live cd? Have a discussion with her? Let her try yours?
The online demo is not the only method of trying the OS. It's really not even a true method. It's a marketing tool. Not something you would send Granny Smith.
...and then what? She ends the idea of installing the OS? No, she probably tells you (for whatever reason) she doesn't understand what she's looking at. And your response is what; to just quit? Tell her to use her current OS?
My point? The online demo isn't the end-all of the Ubuntu preview. Stop treating it like it is.
Finally, ask yourself, am I making good points or trying desperately to win an internet argument.
Christ, give it a rest. Canonical should definitely not be targeting Granny Smith, not yet anyway. Power users dissatisfied with Windows or MacOS are where the action is for now and the foreseeable future.
(Here, I use the term 'power user' to mean e.g. anyone who has looked at the device manager in Windows.)
You can't empathize? You can't give them a little slack? They didn't spend enough time testing the demo of the OS on a browser for your liking? They were probably busy building an operating system. If their core competency was website building, you would have a point. But in this case you're just being pedant.
No, I'm saying I can't do the tour because it doesn't fit in my browser. Most potential users would just go away at that point. Instead of just going away, I mentioned it here so someone can know.
It's the first time they've done this sort of demo. I betcha the next realeses will not have as many issues.
Release early, realease often.
Most potential users don't go through the effort of downloading and running a live cd/usb. The web demo is a major hook, it just needs a couple iterations to be perfected. That is the way of the open source.
>Most potential users would just go away at that point.
Most?
You viewed the demo with the intention of checking out the OS. This isn't the only way to check out an OS. In fact, this method is relatively the first of its kind. The first time you probably ever saw a demo like this. It doesn't work so you give up on any other method? Screenshots? Live CD? Writeups on blogs. You know, all the ways you normally "tour" an OS. And ultimately you give up on the OS entirely? Any SERIOUS potential user will find other ways of checking out the OS. Like we've done with every other OS in the past.
I can't believe you're actually arguing this point.
You might just be zoomed in. That's a sticky setting on Firefox -- I keep it zoomed one or two steps up on Firefox for comfortable reading, and the demo didn't quite fit on my screen.
Return to default zoom (Ctrl/Cmd+0) and it works fine.
