reducing distribution CD count

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Mar 2 01:47:00 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:45:22AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
 > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
 > >  > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > Also, more people run screen savers than tuxracer, so that's where the
 > >  > > video driver crashes tend to occur.  Then they blame me and I am sad.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Hehe, I've had several people complain about 'random' crashes, usually 
 > >  > when they arrived at work in the morning or came back from coffee. All of 
 > >  > them related to 3D screensavers :)
 > >  > 
 > >  > Maybe disabling 3D screensavers by default (and/or a warning about the 
 > >  > potential to crash when people open the screensaver configuration) would 
 > >  > reduce the uncomfortable (unstable) feeling people got when using Linux in 
 > >  > these cases.
 > > 
 > > Or how about just fixing the drivers so they don't lock up ?
 > 
 > People first have to know why it crashes before they know where to report 
 > it. The anecdotes I gave was to indicate that people usually don't know 
 > why it crashed and in return have a general feeling of unstability.
 > 
 > I would like to make sure that 1) these people don't have an uncomfortable 
 > feeling and 2) understand that enabling 3D has a potential to crash a 
 > system, so people might realise why it happens and where to report it.

The problem is a "turning on this feature may crash you computer" dialog is enough
to scare away a majority of users. Lowering the amount of testing something
gets lowers the possibility of it ever getting reported, and subsequently fixed.

		Dave




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