Re: Jessie Post-Install
On Mon 31 Mar 2014 at 18:47:05 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:56:09PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote:
> >
> > You probably just need some non free firmware.
> >
> > For instance, if your hardware is realtek, just install
> > firmware-realtek and it should work.
>
>
> No, as I said it was working during the install and wouldn't without the
> firmware needed which was, non-free. I know what I'm doing and was able
> to enable it. The point I'm making is that a novice user would have been
> lost - Xfce4 isn't the most user friendly UI. That's why GNOME-Shell
> should be the default. IMHO
>
> Most users are going to be using relatively modern laptops that will run
> it fine. Hell I've had a 10 year old laptop running Gnome-Shell just
> fine prior.
I have no strong feelings one way or another about what the default DE
should be but doesn't the present way of offering GNOME as an alternative
satisfy the needs of such users?
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