Mark Crean wrote: > I think the point is that just installing the stuff is only half the > story. It's like providing the raw ingredients for a meal. They still > have to be prepared and cooked. Some folks lack the time and perhaps the > skills for that, which is where the desktop-friendly distros come in. > The only two I know well (apart from Debian) are Ubuntu and SUSE and > it's clear they make 101 tweaks around the place to offer what they > consider to be a good "user experience", including those "your updates > are now read apps", firewalls (in the case of SUSE), more attention to > help files, more eyecandy, package selections heavily biased towards > click-and-go apps and all the rest. No doubt Debian could do something > similar and roll it up into a new task selection, but it would be a > pretty huge amount of work, I would guess. So yes, the current Debian > installer is darn nice, but for many desktop users that's not the only > thing.
I know of several people[1] who have already done a lot of work in this area on Debian. It's illistrative that this wiki page changed from a huge list of things that needed to be done manually before the sarge release to "it just works (plus entirely too much info about setting up a multiuser desktop system)" after the sarge release: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo -- see shy jo [1] myself included
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