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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Ubuntu is *not* aimed at the literate and advanced user though as one
such user I find it very comfortable to work with.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 22:10 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
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<pre wrap="">A feature I did not like was the fixed set of packages installed. No
choice at all,
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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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