Will Ubuntu revolutionise the Desktop? Or will it collapse under the weight of its contradictions?
I am only picking on Redhat because I used to use it exclusively and because it is by far the biggest show in town. Now I have not used Redhat for a few years so the following may be quite outdated, I hope it is.
If you have only ever used Windows and you are attempting to install Linux on your own, perhaps because you have never met another Linux user, then the Redhat installer was not the most friendly place to be. Anaconda is beautiful, and fantastic for technical users, but not particularly newbie friendly.
Yes you can accept all the defaults and probably be quite fine or you could spend many hours Googling, but the first experience is one of confusion rather than enlightenment. People will learn the difference between XFCE, Gnome and KDE eventually, people will learn what different applications are available, but these kind of issues do not need to be rammed down their throats to start with. Overwhelming new users with their ignorance is not the way to go.
So in the beginning, Ubuntu bypassed all this. Instead, the idea was to get the user up and running as fast as possible, then they can fiddle to their hearts content using the graphical apt tool to add/remove programs.
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