On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:44:19AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Or, perhaps a general rule for default settings - "safest/do no harm"? > [just a wild guess]
Wouldn't it make more sense having the default meaning: guarranteed to work on the majority of systems/setups enabling the admin to later change the defaults to better suit their own particular needs. I remember when (still is?) the default mutt configuration was having no colors defined so that at least it was still usable on displays without colour. Now *that's* clever thinking! Now, (I hope I'm not wrong on this.) It seems that the default GNOME installation required a graphics card with hardware acceleration. How stupid is that? It goes against the whole concept of a sensible default. BTW, along the same lines, I'd expect the default *not* to suspend on lid-close simply because some models have "quirks" when coming out of suspend. It should be configurable by the admin whether he¹ wants it that way. ¹ Yeah yeah or she. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141125221440.GG5457@tal
