Levels of difficulty
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Tour |
In Progress
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Wishlist
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Anthony Stewart |
Bug Description
This tour has the potential to be really useful for people of all levels of experience, but it would be a bad thing if people of too lower expertise were exposed to complex stuff (like the command line in any shape or form) - as it would put them off Ubuntu in a very short amount of time. It would be nice to be able to separate content in terms of difficulty and required knowledge and experience. People, when setting up the tour, could then select their level of experience and see only articles which they can cope with, at least until they get a bit of experience.
I would propose four levels...
Things like navigating the desktop, using programs like Banshee, Firefox and OpenOffice and using the basics of the software centre should be at the first level. Also, all the basic features of Ubuntu like E-mail, Chat menu, Background etc.
Level 2 would go into more complex features of the normal programs, like appearence and themes (beyond background) and compizconfig and programs like GIMP.
The third level could be things which require basic terminal use (mentioning terminal in articles for anyone who is not very tech-savvy would seriously put them off Linux forever). Also, PPAs could be here or level 2. Other advanced tasks like mounting drives and filesystem-related stuff would be here too. Basic network admin tools could start here also, along with file sharing (as, at least in 10.10, it takes a lot of messing around with to work).
Level 4 would be medium+ terminal stuff almost exclusively. Perhaps a few of the more advanced network tools could be here too.
Just a thought, but it would make it easier to decide what to put into articles, as we can just write them for various experience levels.
This has been coined in the past,
along with training exercises and questionnaire to complete a tour.
The application could serve as a minimal level of knowledge certification.