interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:28:15PM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:

> Ubuntu is getting easier to use, but I have enocuntered a mindset that the 
> configuration should not be made easier so that only those who know how to 
> can alter their configuration, this is a wrong attitude, and it discourages 
> people.

Given a choice between making it easier to configure something and 
making it unnecessary to configure it, we should always choose the 
latter. Having a lot of options that should "just work" makes it harder 
for people to find the (fairly small) number of options that /are/ 
absolutely required.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org