I get your point, Kevin. I would argue though that, if a user is looking to use Linux, they probably got a decent idea as to what DE they want to use. There are.... SO MANY LINUX DISTROS! Making a choice between two is honestly probably not that jarring imo.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:06:45PM -0400, Steve Cossette wrote: > > Alright, so a substantial amount of information changed since the > original > > submission of the change proposal. We aren't necessarily thinking of > > demoting Gnome. The overall spirit of the CP is that we think KDE, and to > > some extent the other spins too, need a bit more visibility on the > website. > > At the very least, Gnome and KDE should be up front on the frontpage. > > So, I am far from a web designer, but if you aren't a Linux savvy person > and just decided to try out this Fedora thing because you heard it was > nice and you go to download it and get: > > our website: Want a workstation? > user: yes! > > our website: great! We have Gnome and KDE! > user: what? what does that mean? which one should I get? > > our website: > > Gnome: "Get things done with ease, comfort, and control. > An easy and elegant way to use your computer, > GNOME is designed to help you have the best possible computing experience." > > KDE: "Powerful, multi-platform, and for everyone > Use KDE software to surf the web, keep in touch with colleagues, friends > and family, manage your files, enjoy music and videos; and get creative > and productive at work. The KDE community develops and maintains more > than 200 applications which run on any Linux desktop, and often other > platforms too." > > User: ok, that didn't tell me much, whats the difference? > perhaps I will just keep using windows. > > Ok, thats obvously somewhat tounge in cheek, but if we promote multiple > things, we need some way to describe them to uses who might not know the > history of things and do it in a quick enough way that they won't decide > it's all confusing and go do something else. > > kevin > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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