On 3/28/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:18 -0500, Yang Xiao wrote:
> If you are new to Linux, yes, install everything.
Okay then, I hope they do that! (With one particular person in mind).
Maybe then they'll get to experience why it's such a bad idea.
Hopefully, they're on dial-up internet access, too. >:-)
Come to think of it, this is a better reason than the one I had in mind.
But for most people, they will only know what they need or don't need over time, and for newbies, trying to install packages on demoand may not be so fun if they are just casual users.
- Yang