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I think that open-source projects need to take these questions of usability more seriously. There seems to be an unspoken but pervasive attitude that features s

by miander 12y ago

I think that open-source projects need to take these questions of usability more seriously. There seems to be an unspoken but pervasive attitude that features should not be added for convenience or to guide inexperienced users when they make a mistake. To go on a tangent, I think this is why Linux desktop environments still lag behind in usability; Windows and Mac chose their fate a long time ago.

TTPrograms 12y ago
The attitude I would find most helpful would be one of "sane defaults". It should be possible for beginning users to get up and running doing things with the most minimal amount of configuration possible. Then as the user learns more they can replace bits of the default piecewise with config files that only overwrite the specified attributes.