On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:00 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Why force > > > *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them > > > find the very question to be a needless imposition which makes the > > > installer incrementally less helpful? > > Sorry, but we're talking about Debian! > > > > I don't think that our target audience are people who cannot make such > > choices, and even if that would be our desired audience (a feeling which > > I have with *buntu) than our actual audience is probably another one.
[…] > I know how to make the choice. I don't fucking want to. Unless I'm > needing to do a customised install for particular needs, I want Debian > to provide me with defaults that just work. I don't care if the > default choices are the ones I would choose myself, I can make changes > later on. I think that choosing a desktop environment is one of the *very few* things that a completely new user would actually be interested in and I believe that we should strive to make it easy and pleasant for them to do so. Keep in mind that even choosing a desktop environment on a whim would yield good results if all "blessed" desktop environments (gnome, kde, xfce and lxde) are well maintained and users can still switch later on. As a new user I would welcome a webpage or installer menu that shows one screenshot with a short description of the environment in question. Experienced users will already know what they want and can select that right away. -- Wolodja <deb...@babilen5.org> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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