On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Matteo Settenvini wrote:
If we really are talking about "newbies" here, keep in mind that people are *scared* of too much options. If you ask them if they want KDE, GNOME, XFCE, ... they will just stare blindly before going back "in the system were you didn't need to know all that technical stuff".
In that case make it real easy for a newbie to distinguish the cases that require a choice and when clicking on next is good enough. Perhaps use a green background when taking the default is guaranteed to work and likely to good enough from the newbie's point of view. A yellow background when an important choice needs to be made. A beige background for the click on what you like situation. Other than duplicating an install, can kickstart be easily used for anything? IIRC one has to get the package and group names exactly right or the install will crap out. What should one do about the newbie who has been reading the list? This newbie has read all the vitriol about gnome and the suggestion to use Xfce instead. He wants gnome, because it is the default and he regards as the most certain to work. He wants Xfce because he expects it to be less painful, if it works.
After all, the very concept of a Desktop Environment is alien to Windows users. They have just one interface, and that's it. Else, different distros with different DEs, as someone pointed out, might make more sense.
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