Re: low-hanging fruit

[Brian Tate <btatehome gmail com>]

Hello,

   I imagine all the talk about this new "spin" is an official spin? 
I've heard it referred to as a "windows xp/mac os x" style spin. This 
kind of phrasing doesn't live well in my ears. I left those proprietary 
blobs to get away from the over-rated usability of these OSes.
   Is it a good goal for the Fedora project to really adopt a policy to 
make "Desktop" spin that doesn't introduce the user to tried-and-true 
security practices like the root account? (thats just one example I've 
seen listed in this thread) Sure it may make it more easily-adoptable 
perhaps then slightly more user adoption, but for completely the wrong 
reasons. Also, I would think it'd be bad if a user downloads the 
"Desktop" version of Fedora and then decides to try the "Fedora" spin of 
Fedora and has a completely different user experience. If people want to 
spend time on a more "user-friendly" spin, I guess more power to them, 
but certainly a "let's follow windows/mac" mentality shouldn't be the 
mission statement.

   Maybe I don't understand the "Desktop"-distro market, I've always 
considered my computer more of a workstation.

-Brian