Re: New user ...opinion.

[William R Pentney <pentney cse Buffalo EDU>]

On Sun, 23 May 1999, A Palsson wrote:

Very true. The one thing that GNOME needs more than anything right now, I
think, is a program which will automate its installation - allow the user
to select what portions of GNOME he/she wants, then download and install
all the necessary packages for it (and all several billion libraries
required) and fix up the .xinitrc file. This should be usable with most or
all of the major distros. With this, GNOME would truly beat Windows in
every area (except perhaps available software, and we're working on that).

- Bill

> Another *very new user* here. I agree, the Linux world is almost like a
> religious thing. Not the first time for me, I was an active member of the
> Team-OS/2 until IBM finally strangled off it's own child.
> 
> Just as a suggestion, since "ease-of-use" is a big factor in user acceptance
> of new environments and Linux/Gnome is anything but an easy thing to set up
> and configure for the average "newbie", with all the compiles / configures /
> makes and "make installs" what about developing some easier method to
> install the thing.
> 
> Something like a menu driven Install routine that installs the necessary
> modules in the proper order, compiles, makes and configures. Without some
> ease of use for the average new user, Windoze is bound to stay on top (who
> would like to see that?)