On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Why force > > *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them > > find the very question to be a needless imposition which makes the > > installer incrementally less helpful? > Sorry, but we're talking about Debian! > > I don't think that our target audience are people who cannot make such > choices, and even if that would be our desired audience (a feeling which > I have with *buntu) than our actual audience is probably another one.
I taught Linus Torvalds some aspects of the C language in 1991. I wrote a little bit of code for the kernel in 1991. I installed Linux on my PC using boot floppies and a hex editor on the boot sector. I built most of the software I needed to run myself, until distros started happening. I maintained the Linux Software Map for a while, and moderated comp.os.linux.announce. I co-founded and wrote a book for the Linux Documentation Project. I've been involved in Debian for nearly two decades, working on a variety of parts of the system. I've worked for Canonical on various aspects of Ubuntu. I now work for a new company on a completely new, from-scratch way to develop embedded and appliance Linuxes, and yes, we include a desktop system. I've used twm, vtwm, fvwm1, fvwm2, various proprietary window managers/desktop systems, CDE, KDE, GNOME, and am now on GNOME+xmonad. I know how to make the choice. I don't fucking want to. Unless I'm needing to do a customised install for particular needs, I want Debian to provide me with defaults that just work. I don't care if the default choices are the ones I would choose myself, I can make changes later on. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131025080026.GN4353@holywood
