On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:23:17 -0400, you wrote: >Heres a thought that I hadn't considered before though, and it might be useful. >Apple at one point (and still may), shiped iphones without the itunes (or some >common) app on it, >and they did so intentionally, because they knew it was an app that people >wanted, and it forced them into a sort of 'training mission' in which they had >to use the app store on their phone to find and install the itunes app. It >gave >end users, after their initial disgruntledness, the skills to install new apps >on their phone, and explore how some of the system worked.
I can't comment if that was ever true, but it certainly hasn't been the case for a very long time - it wasn't an issue on the first iPad. >Would that be a possibility here? I've upgraded my fedora workstation so many >times, I'm not sure what our firstboot screens look like anymore, but would it >be worthwhile to present users with some text, or a guide wizard, to point out >files like their ~/.bashrc file with some commented text that shows clearly >what >some useful environment variables are, and how they might set them to customize >their experience? Its not very 'just press the button to do something you may >or may not understand', but it targets new users as part of firstboot, and >introduces them in a somewhat friendly way to how things look under the covers, >so they can make adjustments as their needs dictate. At which point they realize choosing Fedora was a mistake, and they go to Ubuntu like all their friends suggested in the first place. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
