Ramblings and questions regarding Fedora, but stemming from gnome-software and desktop environments

[Gary Scarborough]

Sorry this is a bit late but I had a few thoughts on what I have read in
this thread:

Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers?  And is the goal the
same for Gnome?  If Gnome is aiming to cater to new users, then is it the
right primary DE for fedora?  There seems to be a misalignment here.

I have spent most of the last 15 years working for one of the largest
computing colleges in the country.  I can guarantee you that the vast
majority of our students learned to program in a terminal.  It may not be
the preferred environment once they become professionals, but it shouldn't
intimidate them by any means.  So if workstation is aimed at developers,
why are we worried about them encountering the terminal when using the OS?

Instead of hiding the CLI from new users, why not simply give them the
option of avoiding it?  Instead of only showing gui apps, why not show all
with packages being tagged as either cli or gui.  Then the user can decide
whether or not they want to install the package.

A package manager that can show ALL packages should be installed by default
in Gnome on Fedora.  This isn't a distro that only ships a single DE.
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