Adam Williamson wrote:
...and forcing a choice - possibly between several things they are
not
familiar with either in detail or in nature - is equally wrong for many
people. Probably *more* people. Lots of people don't really care what
desktop they get, and lots of people don't know what a desktop is or
what are the differences between GNOME and KDE and Xfce and LXDE and and
and and...
You're a new Linux user, you go to our download page, and instead of a
simple big green Download button, it starts asking you questions about
what 'desktop environment' you want? What the hell is this crap?
Getting this right was one of the simple things Ubuntu did that helped
its initial surge in popularity over other distros at the time, BTW.
They didn't make you pass a test to download the product.
I don't think "distro XYZ did that" is a reasonable argument for doing
something in Fedora, but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine
doing exactly what I suggest (making people actually pick their download).
Their download button actually points to a selector, not directly to an ISO.
Kevin Kofler