On 04/22/2017 05:54 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 22 April 2017 at 13:47, Anton Aylward
wrote: Let's not treat the new users as if they were idiots or children. They *WILL* notice that and it will alienate them.
THIS^^^^
I don't agree with everything Anton has said in this thread but I want to highlight this as precisely the sort of thinking I want to encourage in the openSUSE Project.
openSUSE's focus on Sysadmins/Devs/Power users doesn't mean discarding new users, but means being engaging to new users who ASPIRE to be Sysadmins/Devs/Power users.
As a SysAdmin/DevOps type myself, let me mention that this was a primary reason why I abandoned GNOME. The whole environment is patronizing from top to bottom, thinking itself smarter than the user and then embarrassing itself by failing to live up to the aspiration (if your software is going to consider itself smarter than the user, that had better be true!). This includes the development community. In my brief experience attempting to contribute to GNOME to address some of the shortcomings I found, I didn't find the developers very receptive to contributions, having their own idea about the direction they wanted to take the project in. And that's fine, but it's a bit off-putting to power users and potential contributors. I think KDE Plasma fits in much better with the openSUSE goals in this respect: it not only respects the user's intelligence and competence better than GNOME does, but its developers are in my experience *much* more friendly and open to contribution. Nate -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org