Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:36 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 
> > Honestly, what kind of benefit to the community do you expect from a
> > user who gets confused just by looking at a couple nice screenshots
> > and reading some brief explanation? Have you ever met such a person
> > (incapable of understanding two sentences but useful to the
> > community)? Don't you think regarding your users this way a tad
> > disrespectful?
> 
> It's an *initial* state, not a never-changing one. When I first decided
> I was going to try Linux, I wanted to try Linux. I wanted exactly what
> our download page gives you - a simple link to a thing called Linux I
> could download and fiddle with. I'm not sure I wanted my first encounter
> with the Linux world to be a boxout explaining to me what KDE and GNOME
> were and asking me to pick one or the other. These things are obviously
> things I came to learn about later, but they're not the most fascinating
> topic to deal with when you first decide you want to play around with
> this here Linux thing.

This is my experience as well.

The fact we have a prominent default on the download website is a very
good thing for newcomers.


-- 
Mathieu