> > Simple, clean, avoids flamewars. >
That's a nice way to handle it, but it's only really aimed at the geek population. 'Bootstrapping GCC' isn't something many normal users do.
I like the idea of including a few 'pretty' screensavers the user can choose to run from the control panel if they feel the urge to customise - otherwise people can become disalusioned, and people will happily judge their first Linux experience by the quality of given screensavers. A lot of the Xscreensavers need to be taken to the pasture and shot, they are /so/ 1983
Ed
True, bootstrapping GCC is not a typical user activity. However, paying electricity bills is pretty common. Given that many people now have a couple computers at home, the money saved by not driving the monitors 24/7 would be attractive.
Most of the preinstalled version of Windows I have seen now put the screen in power saving mode as the default.
Keeping some attractive screen savers in there is fine. I just like the default preferences to be something that is more useful. I would imagine a large portion of the users don't care about the screen savers, and setting to default to something that would save them money would be a good thing.
-Will
-Will
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