Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies
Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs
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Ive been having a think about how puppy starts up and how it appears to the linux newbie....
I believe that most people turn to linux because they have heard about its magical immunity to malware that plagues their daily lives. Through years of conditioning, when they see a 640x480 screen they immedietly think "Broken...Ive got to spend hours hunting down my video driver, visiting websites that could infect my computer and stop it working...OH NO ".
I think all usable hardware (even by puppy's definition) is capable of at least 800x600 resolution. Can we make this the startup default. This will greatly enhance peoples first expectations.
Also all doze operating systems since 2000 have not been grey. Grey means "old" (i.e. windows 95/98/2000). People do "judge books by their cover" (as is the saying in England). Please, change the default colour scheme to anything but gray!
Personally, I think this was the prettiest puppy ever produced (was it 1.06?). I remember people going "Awwwww, that looks nice, Im gonna try this" as soon as it loaded which theyve stopped doing now.
PLEASE, dont take this personally anyone, I am tech enough to understand the huge advantages even a cutdown distro like puppy has over Vista. I only want the outside to give the right impression of whats underneath!
p.s. I know that sometimes XVESA cant handle intel 8xx chipsets at more that 16k colours. To me even 16k is more than enough!