On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams<awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
That you find no reason to use them does not mean there is no reason to use them.
I guess that puts me in the minority then. There used to be 2 versions of S.u.S.E. - A personal and professional to address this. One of the things we have lost since going the openSUSE route.
So? Follow this path and you might as well just cease all development on everything. Give everyone a Commodore 64 running GEOS and call it a day; that is what millions of people were used to once upon a time. Why even use LINUX, people are used to XP.
Agreed. I don't offer Linux to people anymore. I don't have the time to waste when they wanna know why they can't just download MySpaceIM and have it work. This idea of respositories sounds good on paper, but it's a PITA for most people, especially windows converts who are used to going to a website, downloading a file, and clicking install. Having 1 archive that will work anywhere is a huge plus, and the Linux way is hugely wasteful IMO of resources, disk space, etc.
Ok, this puts you in a pretty small minority of tech users. It doesn't really bolster the position that what you like should be an indicator of what should be installed/enabled by default.
Never said that. I would like a questionaire I can click on at install that makes it easier to disable crap.
There already is <http://en.opensuse.org/Disabling_Beagle>
I prefer my solution. Taboo Beagle during install. Then you don't have to worry with it. But it takes a lot of time to go through and weed out the crap from the basic install. Maybe we could have a list of packages sets designed for the casual users, the middle of the road and the power user. Something WOULD be nice, but since I would just remove stuff anyway, I guess I'm wishfully thinking. Or something where you can say, Hey, My machine is older and doesn't have resources to waste. Can we pare down the install to help me? I don't have a Core2 Quad and 8MB RAM. I have a P3/700 and 384MB RAM and just want to be able to do a little writing and check my email.
No, they didn't, see the above URL (at least in the case of Beagle). And most new users probably have text messaging and use collaborative tools (like twitter, IM, etc...)
No, I meant overall. The KDE devs decided it was their way or the highway, and it's taken a long time to get them to understand how broken v4 is compared to v3. There are other examples as well. Oh well. I guess I'm just wasting my time again trying to have my voice heard since I'm considered to be wrong about everything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org