On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:13:31PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi, > > Having handled many of the issues relating to init system > to the point of being able to release Devuan jessie beta, > I wonder if Devuan community is ready to support action on > other scourges of the linux on personal computer ecosystem. > > I am thinking specifically of three key mapping bugaboos: >
I agree that any of us has his/her own personal preferences about the kind of configuration we would like to find when we install a new distro. The problem is that if Devuan is amining at a wide public, we should not make decisions which might automatically exclude part of that public, or refrain them from giving Devuan at least a try. In other words, I would warmly suggest to avoid "uncommon" settings (like mapping CAPS-LOCK to CTRL...) in favour of letting potential users try and use Devuan with minimal surprise. This is much more important than providing good speed-ups for a particular niche or subgroup of users. An experienced Debian/Devuan user is able to customise a new Devuan installation without problems. And most of us have been upgrading the same machine over and over the years, without ever going through a fresh install. I think the laptop I am using at the moment started as a Lenny-stable, and went through Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie and now to Devuan Jessie, just by dist-upgrading. We don't need Devuan to provide our preferred sets of presets as a default for everybody, after all. LeaveItSimple HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
