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Re: A lot of choice is not always good



kk5st@swbell.net (Gary Turner) writes:

>>My original message
>>made clear that I think there may be room for more
>>than one. But there are 10. TEN. I'm saying that
>>somebody could enhance the value of Debian by
>>figuring out which 5 could be eliminated from
>>the distro.
>
> Crap!  Debian's (or any market's, for that matter) value is enhanced by
> the availability multiple, even superfluous, choices.  It's called
> freedom of choice---even when the choices are trivial.  You're worried
> by 10 options?  Wait 'til you look for IRC (chat) applications.  As I
> recall, there were 48 to choose from.

I agree!
The large number of choices is what brought me to debian to
start with! The only thing really needed, is a better way to
find the ones I want to try -- and knowing human nature, I
probably will never be satisfied on that one.

Paul








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