no, sensibility. gentoo is in a big part a do it yourself distri, way to overwhelming for a poor newbie. The first real error will freak him out and if he had not some quality time with gentoo before by doing some basic stuff, he will even not be able to disinguish a real error from a nuisance and so will be horrified even more.
you're limiting yourself and the distribution by this set of assumptions.
Remeber this stupid fork-bomb thread? How many people have read the security docs?
the reason people panic over security issues is because it is not explained simply enough for them to understand. People are smarter than you given credit for you just need to speak in their language.
I do not blame users, I respect, that not every user is able to cope with gentoo, something not related to intelligence, and that there a lot of better choices for such people.
like the computer at all. We have designed systems so poorly that their comprehensible only by a vanishingly small minority of people on this planet.
Why doYOU want to turn gentoo in something like Linspire? If someone wants tools to hold his hands all the time - there are enough distributions out there, no need to turn gentoo into the next one.
again, there you go assuming. I don't want to make something like expire but I do want to make it work without me having to babysit. Automation and simple interfaces are not for the novice user only. They are also for the expert who wants to go do real work for living and not play system administrator.
Seriously, I have a half a dozen machines running here and the fact that I have to spend hours every couple of weeks to update so that the Big Bang updates don't bite me in the ass, really sucks because I don't get paid to upgrade and it costs even more to not. And no, but Debbian doesn't work because it's too old, Red Hat doesn't work because it has breakage every release and can't seamlessly upgrade.
And where on www.gentoo.org do you find the statement 'gentoo is made for beginners and advanced users'? I can't find it.
I guess my web page updates haven't made it...
You need at least a little bit of knowledge to set up a sane gentoo box, and no tool will help you with that. It will only help unprepared users to waste a lot of time.
again ignorance of what a good human computer interface will buy you. You need three tiers of interfaces; novice, advanced, expert. Each one has different stories that tells the user and guides them through to the correct answer. Inevitably the user experience is a mixture of those three levels depending on where they have pushed the interface by their actions. For example, I would find myself using Interface were I only change network and file allocation. Everything else is "do what I did the last time". Somebody else may want to control what packages they load. But the same user interface should be capable of doing the tasks.
think differently.
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