Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:19, jdd wrote:
> > If you take Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu etc., everybody has a pretty good idea
> > about the "mission" and focus of those distros.
>
> most people don't care and simply use them

This is a pretty accurate assessment.

I relate this to the new-ish users I've set up with openSUSE.  Unless
they are a tech geek and like to tinker as I do (in which case, they
don't ask me to help them install Linux since they've already done it
themselves), they usuall just take whatever the defaults are
(including the DE) and NEVER change them.  I try to showcase at least
Gnome and KDE and ask them to pick one (what they pick is irrelevant
here right now).  They pick a DE, and then I help them through the
install, and set up whatever apps they want (Skype, IM client, web
browser etc).  They end up at the desktop when it's all done, and
beyond maybe changing the default wallpaper, that's it... their system
stays as it is with virtually zero settings adjustments... they simply
use the Linux desktop as... a desktop that contains the applications
that they are interested in.  I see the same end user behavior
regardless of them using Ubuntu, openSUSE or whatever.  They don't
care what the mission or focus is... they want stable, reliable,
working... anything outside of that is proverbial icing on the cake.

C.
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