The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and spending time dancing around the lesser populace is time wasted on doing practical stuff ( While I'll admit theres got to be a half-way, or gentoo will never get any fresh blood, but I'd prefer to entice fresh blood from people who have some potential to improve the distro
Great post Kent. I'd love to see more features to attract unskilled users, but I'd hate to have that slow down the development of features that I would actually use. The main camps we seem to be divided into are: 1. we don't want unskilled users and: 2. we do want unskilled users and most align with #1. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. I still think there is a huge long-term benefit to a large user base, even if many of those users start out unskilled. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
