[plug] Mandriva Free Spring 2008

[Jim Householder]

I quite agree.  Too much choice can be bad.  I've lost track of the 
number of hours (weeks?, months?) spent dithering over nearly equal 
choices...

I dabbled a bit with GNU/Linux for several years, but did not seriously 
use it until I found Xandros.  While Debian based, it got me started.

Jim

Paul Antoine wrote:
> My experience with people is that simplicity is indeed the reduction of 
> choices hit on introduction to something new.  It would appear to be 
> human nature to be overwhelmed easily by a great deal of choice.  Indeed 
> recent research points to wide choice as a major psychological stressor 
> of the modern world.
> 
> I feel Ubuntu does a very reasonable job of selecting a useful set of 
> initial choices for those at whom it is primarily aimed: the average 
> person switching from a zero-choice windows environment or not used to 
> installing an operating system.
> 
> Ubuntu is *not* aimed at the literate and advanced user though as one 
> such user I find it very comfortable to work with.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Gavin Chester wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 22:10 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
>>   
>>> A feature I did not like was the fixed set of packages installed.  No 
>>> choice at all,
>>>     
>>
>> <unintended flamebait>
>> But you can't condemn it for that since isn't that also what the
>> over-popular ubuntu has been doing since day one? That's one big reason
>> I have only dabbled with ubuntu, never making it my chosen distro. IOW,
>> it's not the first and only distro to think simplicity resides with
>> reduced choice (at least until the user understands how to add packages
>> with this thing called a 'package manager') 
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>> Gavin 
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