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On 26 October 2015 at 20:58, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Yeah you're absolutely right. A newbie would carefully be checking every setting, the experienced admin would be more into assuming everything is as last time. We provide the defaults more for the newbie than for the experienced admin.
Assuming your tone is intentionally sarcastic, I think it's fair to say that we cannot and should not always "optimise for absolute beginners" In this day and age, an individuals computer security should be considered at least somewhat of their own responsibility. We provide the tools for that, and we provide sensible defaults for the scenarios we offer But lets entertain the thought of ensuring our newbie experience is sensible For newbies, they are likely to install KDE or GNOME, where the firewall is enabled by default Yes, it's disabled by default in the minimal install, but if you truly believe a newbie can handle a console-only installation, but needs to have a firewall automatically enabled by default because it's too hard..then you must have a very different definition of newbie than I do.. I'd consider that an 'advanced' scenario, and I think our defaults fit that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org