On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:07:11PM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote:
I really can't understand why it is a real problem to install one tool for the download.
For me or you it isn't. For a lot of users it is.
Some years ago when Windows did not include a ZIP compression utility million of Windows users managed without problems to install WinZIP or a similar tool to unzip ZIP files as you find them all over the net. Almost nobody complains why the included files are not stored uncompressed on the web servers.
SOme years ago, the only people who used a computers or had one at home
were people who were at least sideways interested in computers. You put
out a very valid point. Users and their knowledge have changed.
A few years ago it would have been normal to just do a download with ftp
under dos, put stuff on a floppy and then start installing and
downloading.
Now people want to jusr download the iso, burn it and run Linux, which
explains the success of Ubuntu. So what must happen is a paradigm shift.