> The challenge for the adventurous 'all-choice' population is to > realize that they aren't the lion share of people. This is similar to my argument on #fedora-admin last night. The following is all 'in my experience' and is not to be taken as fact, however. People who are new to linux (and Fedora) will 99% of the time download the default, however big you make the other options. If you give them 4 equal choices, they will be confused because they don't have the prerequisite knowledge to make an informed choice (and no, one paragraph isn't enough, and no, a bunch of pages with 'Gnome Explained' isn't enough either, because they won't read it). Confusion is bad in new users. People who are not new to linux (or even Fedora) are intelligent/curious enough about the alternatives to seek out choice. They don't need it presented to them in 4 equal boxes on the download page. I admit, the other choices option could be larger or in a button form to be slightly more obvious, but I honestly think that to attract sort of users who will end up downloading one of the alternative operating systems you don't need a complicated download page stuffed full of alternatives. While Fedora has a default operating system the users who are new to Linux will download that default. The more experienced users will seek out alternatives and/or experiment if they aren't happy with the default. If they are seeking out alternatives, the current designs look fine to me - because if you're looking for other options it's obvious enough where they are. In summary: I think making the download page more complex to support 'fairness' is a mistaken thing to do. That complexity will make life more difficult for the large majority that just want to download the defaults and try it. My 2cents (while I'm in NYC anyway). Simon _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
