On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Weaver wrote: >> But this, again, is not what is being advocated. >> I see nothing wrong with a small educational process being incorporated >> into the install procedure. > > There is the installation-guide¹.
The average newbie doesn't know about that until about a month after the first successful install.........whenever that may be according to the individual case. It wouldn't be a good idea to put > screes of explanation in the installer, would you want to read it all > every time you installed a system? I could see the possibility of > becoming "<enter>" or "<space>" happy. 'Screeds' are not suggested. I might have to write something up to demonstrate. > >> The average end/home user would, in all likelihood, not even be >> interested >> in LVM initially and for, probably, some considerable time after that. > > Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average > end/home user. Exactly, but that's the majority market and I don't see anything wrong woth aiming for that. Now, Ubuntu, that is more like the average end/home > user. Never tried it, but have found Mageia, Trisquel and VectorLinux interesting. All of which I prefer to Linux Mint, which is what everybody has been raving about lately. Regards, Weaver -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ebc162a6d08e1319bddd1d65c94ea9d9.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
