* Joe Harmon
Why not let the user make that choice?
Explained *many* times but you have not accepted the explanation.
Why do need to suggest anything?
same answer.
Is the fear that one desktop will overtake another by not suggesting a desktop?
see above
I just don't understand why we are suggesting anything.
see above
If we truly support both desktops then either install them both and give the user a better option for seeing the difference between the two or let the user make the choice.
The *user* in this case is *unknowing* and will develope his preferences with experience.
It has been said in earlier threads that the reason for doing this is so that we have more of a user experience like Ubuntu.
no, simplicity of installation. We are not interested in using Ubutu.
But Ubuntu has one desktop that they officially support. We don't.
:^)
That isn't a bad thing, I think it is a good thing.
:^)
But if we want less screens or choices for a new user, I don't see how suggesting one desktop over an equally supported desktop is an answer to that problem.
We are not advocating or suggesting one over the other, but making the *original* installation *simpler*. The accompanying text will explain that the preselection may be changed and that it is done as a convience determined by the popularity of one vs the other, not on the merits of one vs the other.
We are essentially saying that the selected desktop is the suggested or preferred desktop.
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