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