On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:13:50PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:49PM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote: > [...] > > Ok, an example. my Girlfriend was really pissed of Win8. She hate it > > (for good reasons). She came to me and asked:"Can you show me Linux > > and how it works?". I sweat blood, but I took my honor. > > After a successful install she said:"That's not Linux. The button on > > the left has no K." > [...] > > This is a good example of why providing choices can be unhelpful. If > someone doesn't know that there are multiple desktop environments > available and what the differences are, how will they choose when > prompted to do so? Maybe they will go and do the research when they > reach that point in the installer, or maybe they will try a different > distribution whose installer JFDI.
For a non-technical user, different desktop environments, at least full-blown ones, are for practical purposes whole separate operating systems. On the other hand, if you don't know what an init daemon or a MTA is, you'll be served well with whatever is the default. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130606203430.ge20...@angband.pl
