Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (783 mails)

[Kay Schenk <kschenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Harmon wrote:
> > > > On 8/5/2009 at 09:46 AM, Kay Schenk <kschenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>
> > Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > * Joe Harmon <jharmon@xxxxxxxxxx> [08-04-09 16:06]:
> > > > Why not let the user make that choice?  
> > > Explained *many* times but you have not accepted the explanation.
> > >
> > > > Why do need to suggest anything?  
> > YES! YES! YES! people. New users don't know WHAT to choose. Please try
> > to put aside your "political" convictions whatever they may be, and just
> > give new users *something*. If you don't, the installation process will
> > be even more frightening to them than it likely already is. KDE seems to
> > be a very reasonable choice, frankly.
>
> This has nothing to do with political convictions. This has to do with trying 
> to be fair to both desktops.

I understand that, but I beg to disagree. Try to remember a time when
you were a new user, and ahd to make this kind of decision. Yes, it does
take "guts" to switch to Linux, but I think you need to understand, that
even people with "guts" need help and hand holding on these kinds of
issues. I switched to SuSE in 2001, ver 7.1. I knew NOTHING about either
KDE or Gnome at the time. I had to do a LOT of investigation on my own
to figure all this out. What has been suggested if I'm reading all this
correctly is to simply check a DE button for the installer, presumable
KDE. Ok, if you are not willing to do that, I think you will need to
provide some help icons for both. I don't think either approach is
necessarily "bad", but I think you are really misreading your potential
market of new users, who, by the way, are not ALL computer geeks.

I really think for new users, no doubt coming over from Windows, less is
definitely more.
>

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