On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > You're a new Linux user, you go to our download page, and instead of a > simple big green Download button, it starts asking you questions about > what 'desktop environment' you want? > As I said earlier in this thread, and as the Fedora Board ratified (link given in my previous post), this is not the type of the user base we are targeting. There is a perfect distro for such users, and its called Ubuntu. > What the hell is this crap? <rant> I really don't enjoy supporting users who are unable to read 10 lines of documentation. "What the hell this crap" is to be explained there concisely so that they will be able to make a more informed decision and increase their productivity. > Getting this right was one of the simple things Ubuntu did that helped > its initial surge in popularity over other distros at the time, BTW. > They didn't make you pass a test to download the product. Promoting laziness is a dangerous path. </rant> Best, Orcan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
