Just watched an OM review by YouTux Channel if anyone’s interested. Appears he likes OM but hates the download portion of the website.
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Thanks for sharing.
That’s probably something the Team should look at.
Again.
And again 
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Yes.
Edit: And maybe ask YouTux and others how they would present OM from a marketing perspective?
Well, if I may be so bold, OM is an excellent distro, but I have to admit that it takes more pc knowledge than the average person migrating from Windows is going to have to navigate the download page. If it were me, I might give them an AMD or Intel option, and leave the rest under a tab for “Advanced Users”. Dumb it down, for lack of a better phrase, for the distro-hopping crew that are going through Fedora, Ubuntu, and Catchy. I think OM can hold it’s own against any of them, and what I like is the smaller community that can be directly addressed in the forums. Don’t get that with the larger distros, and that’s something that sets OM apart.
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I saw this video.
And I agree, the download part of OM is the most difficult one.
Aside from that, I needed to change the system of the office PC on my home. I went from Mint to OM Rock.
And my 16yo sister found OM easier and better to use than Mint. I was surprised and happy.
PS: She loves KDE
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I would just give them the x86 version of ROCK with an easy to use link to the latest ISO. Everything else behind the Advanced button. If they want more than ROCK, they can come in here and talk turkey with us.
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I may play with the Downloads and Release Picking pages layout.
One point is: we prefer users to download and use ROME
OpenMandriva flagship release is ROME (rolling)
Should we make it the default choice if we had to choose/offer one and just one only version?
On the othe hand, the “Download” big button leads to release-picking (Which version should I download)
and there we can see the Default Download
so I really can’t understand where is the problem 
Also at https://www.openmandriva.org/downloads page we see:
Aside, I have read somewhere in the past that someone dislikes download from SourceForge. So what we should do to please everyone??
Whatever you do you did it wrong..
Got it 
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Most of the new users will show up when there is a new release of ROCK. That is the one they are looking for. Those who want ROME would know to hit the “Advanced Users” button to get to the hidden stuff. They are also much more likely to come to the forums.
I don’t have a problem with Sourceforge, but I guess some do. I just know that the average person doesn’t want any confusing choices to make. They want that green button to start the download, not take them to another site.
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What about a page or paragraph that explains what each is and why a user would want one over the other? A newcomer shows up not knowing that they have a choice to make.
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https://www.openmandriva.org/downloads
Refresh page
https://www.openmandriva.org/release-picking ?
https://www.openmandriva.org/info-rock
https://www.openmandriva.org/info-rome
https://www.openmandriva.org/info-cooker
https://www.openmandriva.org/info-spins
https://www.openmandriva.org/info-server
btw I think that I will edit the above pages soon.
Not meaning the description itself, but if while at it anyone can provide better description or more info feel free to suggest.
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OpenMandriva Lx
A delicious Linux recipe. Fun flavoredWhich version should I download
Click each for detailed descriptions
How about something like that?
When I came here, I understood the differences between stable point releases and rolling releases. Some that show up, having only used Windows, have no idea what that means. They don’t know that Windows is a stable release model. We have to use the “Explain it to me like I am 5 years old” model. 
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Done 
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Most of us here, are technical people. We don’t give this stuff a second thought. I am sitting here forcing myself to think back to the time when I tried Linux for the first time.
The first thing I did was a Gentoo install. I had it working, but it really wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the compile it all and then compile it some more and next week, lets compile it again. I ran it for a few days.
Next was Red Hat. Very nice, but I didn’t like Gnome. I don’t think I ran it a whole day.
Next was SuSE. 9.0 and I was in love. This was pre-Novell days. KDE pre-Plasma. I stuck with this for a few years.
Arch came to be and I knew the rolling releases were what I wanted. I moved to Arch and never looked back. I stayed for years. Until…
Tumbleweed! I could not help but move to Tumbleweed, because openSUSE will always have a place in my heart. I stayed with it until the Lunduke video. I
I did not know about OpenMandriva. I wish I had. I would have been here from the start. I didn’t know what I was missing. You don’t know what you don’t know. I needed someone to explain things to me in the beginning. Someone to hold my hand as I took those first steps.
You say we have ROME as our flagship and I get that. I love the rolling release model. I have not run a stable release since Arch had its humble beginning. The newbie is drawn to stable as it makes them feel more secure, like training wheels on their first bicycle. How many of them could be swayed to run ROME if they fully understood the differences? Yet, most of them will download and install without ever coming to the forums to ask questions. If they have any problem, they leave without us ever knowing why.
What if we state on the https://www.openmandriva.org/release-picking page that the forums are the absolute best place to start? Let us help you make the right choice and get you started with confidence.
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Refresh page.
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Can we make forum a link, please? I just like to draw them to the forums as much as possible. After all, the community is what makes us so different. I am just of the belief that everywhere the word forum is used, it should be a link to here.
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I knew already that it was going to happen..
I noticed it but was too lazy to edit the code again..
Well, done now 
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I like it!
You know me well.
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I know this is about to go where it should be in OM Mod Talk, but I can’t help but think that we could simplify things a lot by having task-x11 and task-wayland on the same ISO and the user would have the choice of sessions. Mine is set that way by my choice to add them. It would makes the ABF better, because there would be less ISOs to build, but it would also make the choices for the new user simpler. I would like to know what @bero and the devs think about it, but what do the users think?
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That’s something we basically already have because what we identify as *plasma6.x11 iso contains also the wayland session.
I was not very happy to be honest but given the status quo then I suggested to release just one ISO.
Not sure what’s the devs’ opionion as I did not get any reply on the subject, as far as I can remember 
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