Posted by member 1316 on 2003-10-28 08:08:45 link

as much as "we" (ie the community) want litestep to become more mainstream and more accessible to the general public, it won't be for quite a long time. mainly because of the fact that litestep does require some computer knowledge beyond "look ma, I can turn it on and play solitaire!!". which, unfortunately, 98% of the world is still at (just guessing at the number). those people will always have problems, just because they don't know how to troubleshoot theme/module errors. it's not their fault, they're not stupid, they just don't know computers like we do. and that's basically the gap we're facing: litestep requires the user to be somewhat of a "power user", otherwise they won't know how to do anything, and they'll get frustrated and uninstall it. and as much as we say "read the docs and you'll be fine", well, yeah, the docs will make sense if you're advanced enough in computers to understand what they're saying. but most people aren't. just like most people can't just read a book on c++ and code whatever they want. no matter what we may believe, it's just not that easy.