Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Difficulties in Modeling GNU/Linux User Behaviors (21 Apr 2004) Creating models of user behavior has been helpful in predicting basic outcomes of computer usability testing involving human subjects. However, models and methods have been based on a narrow view of computer use; namely, they are not compatible with behaviors resulting from using the Linux operating system. How different could Linux be from other operating systems?! This article provides a few points of comparison. Article URL: http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/2004/April/linux.html Read 32 more articles from Usability Professionals Association sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Does a piece of paper really matter? Friend of usability This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy