On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Christian Jäger<christian.jaeger@rub.de> wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 00:03 +0200 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
b) I fear the decision has to be made by myself as the Product Manager of openSUSE.
You got my sympathies. ;-)
Greets, Chris Jäger
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This has always been a questioned poised to me when I suggest someone download and install openSUSE, Which desktop should I use, what is the difference, and the big one, why is there 2 desktops and why does it not just load one? What I am getting out is I cannot tell the new user which one to use because than it comes back upon me if they do not like the suggestion I made. Most systems I have used install one default and later on you have the choice to switch to another one (if there is another one). Believe me when I say this, I have had users just say, well I cannot decide so I will just stay with whatever I am using presently. Or, they ask me why is there 2 is something wrong with one so they give you a choice of 2 or 3. I would say that 95% of the users I do get to try openSUSE are coming from Windows where there is only 1 choice when installing so having 2 or 3 choices on the install does truly confuse them. They really do not care and only want a desktop that works. It is only the experienced Linux user who knows about the different desktops and then they can make changes after the install. Why argue or vote and let the manager select one as default as you can always change later to the one of your choice. I personally care less which one installs as default since I know I can switch and change later. Most new users would not even know the difference anyway as they will use what is installed until they tinker and learn the system. Being with 3 other Linux systems I have never seen this brought up before as they all had a default desktop on the install. PeterPac InNetInvestigations-Forensic SLED/openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org