On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:36 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > > Honestly, what kind of benefit to the community do you expect from a > > user who gets confused just by looking at a couple nice screenshots > > and reading some brief explanation? Have you ever met such a person > > (incapable of understanding two sentences but useful to the > > community)? Don't you think regarding your users this way a tad > > disrespectful? > > It's an *initial* state, not a never-changing one. When I first decided > I was going to try Linux, I wanted to try Linux. I wanted exactly what > our download page gives you - a simple link to a thing called Linux I > could download and fiddle with. I'm not sure I wanted my first encounter > with the Linux world to be a boxout explaining to me what KDE and GNOME > were and asking me to pick one or the other. These things are obviously > things I came to learn about later, but they're not the most fascinating > topic to deal with when you first decide you want to play around with > this here Linux thing. This is my experience as well. The fact we have a prominent default on the download website is a very good thing for newcomers. -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
