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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience
From:       Dan Mashal <dan.mashal () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-03-14 11:13:57
Message-ID: CALJqFwoWPDS37XXK3nyRmO-hKLZUicxF0=1JKdyv0OPsF-3LOw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Why is it so imtimidating / confusing to "noobs"?

Dan

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, deep64blue wrote:

> On Wed Mar 13 00:32:09 UTC 2013 M=E1ir=EDn Duffy wrote:
>
> "Displaying information geared towards power users by default is
> intimidating / confusing to less-knowledgeable users."
>
> Surely if our target audience / user base is those who have a
> capability / interest in contributing then we shouldn't be looking to
> dumb the boot experience down - that would probably be a reasonable
> choice for Mint or Ubuntu but I fail to see why it's a good one for
> Fedora.
>
> Alan
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Why is it so imtimidating / confusing to &quot;noobs&quot;? \
<span></span><div><br></div><div><div>Dan<br><div><div><br>On Wednesday, March 13, \
2013, deep64blue  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Wed Mar 13 00:32:09 UTC 2013 \
Máirín Duffy wrote:<br> <br>
&quot;Displaying information geared towards power users by default is<br>
intimidating / confusing to less-knowledgeable users.&quot;<br>
<br>
Surely if our target audience / user base is those who have a<br>
capability / interest in contributing then we shouldn&#39;t be looking to<br>
dumb the boot experience down - that would probably be a reasonable<br>
choice for Mint or Ubuntu but I fail to see why it&#39;s a good one for<br>
Fedora.<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
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