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[Elias K Gardner <zorkerz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What's not cool, however, is forcing others to assume as much control as
> YOU want to have. When you insist that something become a visible option,
> it's forcing others to have to read that option.
>
> As a super smart racing car driver, you can dive under the hood. Fork the
> code. Derive a distro. You're in control, beautifully. You understand all
> that. But don't confuse your desire for a Nascar ride with everyone else's
> desire.
>

Would it make sense to include somewhere a note or button that says install
this package for some advanced settings? As a user who often desires more
customisability but is fairly non technical, I often don't know where to
turn to start further customising. This could be a way to balance not
having too many options but letting people know that they exist. A
potential downside to this is that people might start to expect the same
level of support and polish on the advanced settings as on the default.