On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:45:11AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 01:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Then you have no clue about what that means. >What exactly do yo refer to? > >Not providing a default DE? I rather thought about a solution like the >one the EU enforced on Microsoft with the browser selector: > >The interactive debian installation could just present a list of DE's >that are commonly agreed to work in most cases for the current platform. > >E.g. majors like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, MATE, XFCE, perhaps also Cinnamon. >And one could even make a sub menu like "other desktop environments" >where one could select the rarer choices (bare X+twm, and so on). > >That lists could every time be randomised and no pre-selection being >made.
So you want to make it even harder for new users to work out how/what to install with Debian. Also, do you have any idea of what a mess this would also make of our installation media? Many/most users expect us to give them a system that will work without massive sets of questions and user tuning needed. That's what the various teams involved try to achieve. Anyway, this is thoroughly OT for a bug report. (sorry, Joey). Redirecting to -devel if you feel the need to continue... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141023110318.go7...@einval.com
