Re: Abandon "Default Desktop"

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> And as Joel's essay points out, no amount of explaining or lecturing is
> going to make the user care. You can't make them care. They will never
> care. They want Firefox. They've heard of Firefox. They don't want GNOME
> or KDE, they don't want Epiphany, they don't want Konqueror, they want
> Firefox, they want their Myspace, and they want their webmail.

And they want their Window$ and their [insert random Window$-only software,
no matter whether we have a better equivalent or not]. Trying to target
that kind of users is a lost cause.

        Kevin Kofler