Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/22/2013 04:29 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
This is a VERY good point which I had overlooked, the hardware
requirements of GNOME are much higher that XFCE (and I believe MATE) and
represent choice which is very likely to frustrate potential converts.
That's especially true if you consider that many people are installing Linux on
older computers, especially laptops, so as to get some more use out of computers
that aren't up to running the latest versions of Windows. If they don't know
about the various DEs and/or spins, they may just look at the requirements for
Fedora with Gnome, see that they don't have the hardware to run it properly and
give up.
Maybe what we need is a "beginner's spin" that gives you a choice of DE, but
grays out any choices that your system can't handle. It would probably have to
be based on the full DVD installation, but with a specially modified version of
Anaconda that checks your CPU, RAM, video and so on, to make sure that it offers
you the correct choices.
That is a brilliant idea, but why a beginners spin? Why shouldn't a major choice
like UI deserve a screen at startup. And values which are unlikely to work could
be identified so the installer is warned, giving some hope that at least one
functional choice will be made. In my opinion every install should add one more
choice to the boot menu, "boot in VESA (simple) graphics mode." That way people
who who have video cards which aren't supported by the open source video drivers
can have a way to use their computers.
Hopefully some features council will actually pick up these ideas and we can see
them in FC20 or FC21.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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