On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 05:05:58PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
Personally, as a developer, I will say there is one benefit of being so user-unfriendly that the usable ISO is hidden under the beware-of-leopard sign, which is that it serves as a "you have to be this technically aware to install debian" barrier. As a result, we don't have the low signal-to-noise bug reports that are all-too-common on Ubuntu's launchpad.net.
I don't see this as a benefit; I see this as an exclusionary, private-club elitist attitude.
So if we want to reform our "FSF-ly correct freedom is more important than being friendly to novices" (and it's not clear Debian as a whole agrees with this sentiment), folks might want to consider that this probably means we will need to have more people doing bug triage.
We would have *many more people* around to do it, too. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.