There are, IMHO, 2 items that typical system users look for. I whole-heartedly agree with EVERYTHING contributed by members on this thread aiming at the things that trigger human comfort and attractions. One of them is what has been commented on: Visually appealing. The other is OBVIOUS navigation leading to achievements....easily and simply.
In this community over the years, some of the membership would rather not have members present who have "lessor abilities than they possess, themselves". Kinda like "keep membership at an old-buddies club existence".
Others tho, as members here are commenting, have what appears to be a different view for member attractions and I agree. Everything we can do to make Puppy appealing and obvious will have a dramatic effect on any acceptance people, no matter their backgrounds, will lean for.
This is what I call the "FREE" position all humans gravitate in life. We want something for free, without any effort on our part to gain it. A system which seemingly provides this draw and also provides what is discussed captures people who then will gain a sense of control and reliance.
I have seen this countless times in my lifetime and this includes technology and OS development. (Anyone care to evaluate what occurred when Windows/Apple/Android moving from text base inferences to icon based ones.)
These items discussed here in this thread, drives that point home.
The next phases we move to will be crucial and will probably also look for ways to do the same things to make attractive and desirable.
I am not sure exactly how all of what is discussed, here in the thread, will manifest (maybe several manifestations), but I do know of at least 2 member which have made distros which embrace (depending on how one looks at it) the concepts for new manifestations in Puppy Linux.
The first was one provided by @StemSee in his Emsee series. He did 2 VERY UNIQUE things provided to this community:
- Each virtual desktop had a complete and unique layout so that any user could choose which he likes or doesn't.
- His distro allows any user to select if he wants 32bit boot or 64bit boot
Lastly, many users are already reviewing the desktop management changes in current PUPs over the last 2 months.
Combining these is certainly a MAJOR task, but if it could address what is discussed here with the ease of use that these developers are trying to achieve for our understanding, PUPPY LInux is destined to make easy what is discussed, herein.
Hope this is helpful information to this group.
