Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

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On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:23:17 -0400, you wrote:

>Heres a thought that I hadn't considered before though, and it might be useful.
>Apple at one point (and still may), shiped iphones without the itunes (or some
>common) app on it,
>and they did so intentionally, because they knew it was an app that people
>wanted, and it forced them into a sort of 'training mission' in which they had
>to use the app store on their phone to find and install the itunes app.  It gave
>end users, after their initial disgruntledness, the skills to install new apps
>on their phone, and explore how some of the system worked.

I can't comment if that was ever true, but it certainly hasn't been
the case for a very long time - it wasn't an issue on the first iPad.

>Would that be a possibility here?  I've upgraded my fedora workstation so many
>times, I'm not sure what our firstboot screens look like anymore, but would it
>be worthwhile to present users with some text, or a guide wizard, to point out
>files like their ~/.bashrc file with some commented text that shows clearly what
>some useful environment variables are, and how they might set them to customize
>their experience?  Its not very 'just press the button to do something you may
>or may not understand', but it targets new users as part of firstboot, and
>introduces them in a somewhat friendly way to how things look under the covers,
>so they can make adjustments as their needs dictate.

At which point they realize choosing Fedora was a mistake, and they go
to Ubuntu like all their friends suggested in the first place.
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