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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org