Moving to an Open Source World

User-friendliness

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This video segment explains why open source software has a reputation for being hostile to new users, but also dispels much of that reputation by pointing out that user-friendliness among open source programs can be strong and is getting stronger all the time.

Keywords

  • Usability
  • design
  • user interfaces
  • code maturity
  • GNOME
  • KDE
  • localisation
  • installation

About this video

Author(s)
Karl Beecher
First online
25 December 2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4441-8_6
Online ISBN
978-1-4842-4441-8
Publisher
Apress
Copyright information
© Karl Beecher 2019