On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Marc Paré wrote:
I am more in favour of the sequence, at installation, when you get to the
point where you choose "KDE" "GNOME" "Custom", the user picks "Custom" where
she/he is presented with options for "Young Family"; SOHO; "Gaming"
"Education"; "Business"; "Development"; etc. The user could pick more than
one choice that will bst suit the description of his present preference of
installation. Of course some of the packages may appear in one or more list,
but there will be no doubling of installed packages. These options are very
clear and easily understandable by all.
Categories such as "Beginner" "Medium" "Advanced" and "Expert" are very
subjective terms. What one may consider an "Advanced" person may really be a
"Medium" user by someone else's definition and etc.
Options should be based on usage, not on a category the user belongs to.
Hence "Development" is a meaningful choice, because it describes a
specific kind of usage, whereas "Young Family" is basically incoherent.
Spell out the things you think a young family will typically use a
computer for, and let those USAGES be part of the list the person
Dale Huckeby
