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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 137</H1>
<B>Dale Huckeby</B>
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<I>Sun Oct 31 07:07:53 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Marc Paré wrote:
><i> I am more in favour of the sequence, at installation, when you get to the
</I>><i> point where you choose "KDE" "GNOME" "Custom", the user picks "Custom" where
</I>><i> she/he is presented with options for "Young Family"; SOHO; "Gaming"
</I>><i> "Education"; "Business"; "Development"; etc. The user could pick more than
</I>><i> one choice that will bst suit the description of his present preference of
</I>><i> installation. Of course some of the packages may appear in one or more list,
</I>><i> but there will be no doubling of installed packages. These options are very
</I>><i> clear and easily understandable by all.
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</I>><i> Categories such as "Beginner" "Medium" "Advanced" and "Expert" are very
</I>><i> subjective terms. What one may consider an "Advanced" person may really be a
</I>><i> "Medium" user by someone else's definition and etc.
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Options should be based on usage, not on a category the user belongs to.
Hence "Development" is a meaningful choice, because it describes a
specific kind of usage, whereas "Young Family" is basically incoherent.
Spell out the things you think a young family will typically use a
computer for, and let those USAGES be part of the list the person
Dale Huckeby
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