Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

From: Joey Hess (joeyh_at_debian.org)
Date: 11/15/05

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    Mark Crean wrote:
    > I think the point is that just installing the stuff is only half the
    > story. It's like providing the raw ingredients for a meal. They still
    > have to be prepared and cooked. Some folks lack the time and perhaps the
    > skills for that, which is where the desktop-friendly distros come in.
    > The only two I know well (apart from Debian) are Ubuntu and SUSE and
    > it's clear they make 101 tweaks around the place to offer what they
    > consider to be a good "user experience", including those "your updates
    > are now read apps", firewalls (in the case of SUSE), more attention to
    > help files, more eyecandy, package selections heavily biased towards
    > click-and-go apps and all the rest. No doubt Debian could do something
    > similar and roll it up into a new task selection, but it would be a
    > pretty huge amount of work, I would guess. So yes, the current Debian
    > installer is darn nice, but for many desktop users that's not the only
    > thing.

    I know of several people[1] who have already done a lot of work in this
    area on Debian. It's illistrative that this wiki page changed from a
    huge list of things that needed to be done manually before the sarge
    release to "it just works (plus entirely too much info about setting up
    a multiuser desktop system)" after the sarge release:
    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo 

    -- 
see shy jo
[1] myself included



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