"Default" spin of Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Juan Camilo Prada <juankprada at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:30 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Juan Camilo Prada <juankprada at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > By selecting one single media as the official one we are not excluding
>> > anyone from using fedora... if we happen to choose the more user
>> > friendly media (probably Desktop Live Media imo) new users will find it
>> > very easy to use fedora, and most experienced users... well they already
>> > know what they want so they will head to get-fedora section and download
>> > the media :)
>>
>> I think Fedora + "user friendly" is a lost cause. Making decisions
>> based on that is a wasted effort.
>> Furthermore, I see no evidence to believe that "desktop live media" is
>> any more user friendly than "* media"
>
> Please be sure to reply to the list and not to my email :)

Sorry, thought the list defaulted to reply to list

> And I disagree... Even if fedora is not for newbies and as stated by
> paul its for enthusiast, we dont have to make it harder for new users
> who want to join us to get the media just to start knowing what fedora
> is all about.... by providing an easy to use install media we can make
> fedora easy for new enthusiast to join (again i still think Desktop live
> media is the best choice... but that doesnt mean im right)

Please explain how adding more visible options directly equates to
making harder.

> The thing is not about which one we will be supporting or not... again..
> all other spins will still be shown and all of them will be available to
> download from get-fedora section or from spins.fedoraproject.org
> (depending on the media). By having a one click download button at the
> front page we are only suggesting... "hey this is the easiest way to get
> fedora... click here ant try it out" AND NOT "this IS fedora and any
> other spin/version wont be supported anymore".

What about the people who "one click" expecting to get KDE on the media?

> Experienced users already know what they want, and so it will be very
> easy for them to just click on a "more options here..." link or click in
> the "get-fedora" link on the navigation bar to the left to get the media

You have to be pretty experienced with Fedora already to know that
"Fedora Desktop Live Media' includes only one desktop env. and that it
is Gnome.


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