[NTLUG:Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 85, Issue 18

[Chris Cox]

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 12:36 -0600, John Austin wrote:
> It appears that the casual user is out of his league with Fedora.  I had a
> good installation of F10, but since that time none of them worked out of the
> .iso  My interest is to keep up with current trends; however this isn't
> paying off at all.
> John Austin a noobee for 10 yrs.

Yes... this is tough.  I mean, you WANT things to advance, you WANT
things to improve, so... you really want there to be a distribution
that focuses on "new" ideas and concepts.

Ubuntu, while they DO a bit of this, if the "usability" by a newbie
seems to be broken, they pull it and revert to whatever is "usable".
But, Ubuntu also tends to fail miserably if you try to step outside
of the boundaries of operation they believe defines a "usable"
desktop.

It's a tightrope.... and very hard to balance and please everyone.
(not sure if there's a good answer today, unless a distro want
to maintain TWO distros... Debian style?).