Re: Debian is losing its users

[Jeff Goodman <jeff@waysoft.com>]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Jeff wrote:
>  
> > If you want Debian to be popular with more people, work at making it 
> > better for more people.
>
> However, be careful not to make it worse for the previously loyal users.
> If you add fancy but fragile knobs and eye-candy, the fragility will
> scare off anyone who wants to use Debian for a serious use rather than a
> consumer kiddy's desktop.
>
> Doug.
I'd love to see a project, within Debian or not, that works on "user 
enhancement" packages.  The goal would be to create various *optional* 
packages that could be added to a stock debian system to give it some of 
the sizzle that attracts some users to ubu, etc.  This way, the Debian 
purist could just ignore the glitz.

jeff