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Re: Where is Debian going?



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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:04:23PM +0100, Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> > That's why stable exists, and why it's named "stable."  How is that
> > making it difficult?
> 
> Yes, but stable (potato anyways) was not as user friendly as newbies
> need it to be. They want to be able to switch from windows and still be
> able to do everything they did there by pointing and clicking.

The only intuitive interface is the nipple, everything beyond that is
learned.

> stable is *not* hostile. However testing sounds hostile to a new user
> when for a decent and easy to use user interface that was relatively
> stable (compared to windows anyway), testing is the better choice.

But testing != stable.  Yeah, testing may be close enough right now, but
this is *NOT* the usual case.

- -- 
Baloo


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