Although she is aware of the advantages in terms of security, speed and stability, today and yesterday she had a bad experience. Her camera unfortunetly is a windows only (a IMHO misnamed kodak easyshare). Today and yesterday she was wanting to upload her pictures from her camera (stored in her windows "shared" folder) to facebook, but was unable to find them in the linux menu structure.
One of the first things that people want to do when they first boot puppy on a windows system is to try and open their windows files and see if they can still use them (Ive seen this so many times). I think, if puppy detects it is running on a windows computer, it should put a prominent link on the desktop to their "my windows documents" files and perhaps from their /root" directory.
Anyway, I told her a little about how open source works, and said that she could get back to the people that develop puppy, and perhaps they will listen. Ive let her use my account to make this comment, quoted below!
From the puppy mission statementit's becky and i have to tell you that i have found my first few days as a puppy user very frustrating as there is no easy way to find files,it may as well be written in japanese for all the sense it made to me!!!! and my new camera will not work with it so am generally wanting to use windows and now miss Bill Gates being in control of my pc instead of robert!!!! Linux is not user friendly as yet you need to tweak it!!!
Are we doing enough to help them?Puppy should be friendly to linux newbs