IMHO, an user who wants a very complete "easy/ready to use" desktop
probably will go to Mac OS or to a distro specialized to be a desktop
(Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc.).
The most part of Devaun installation will be server, because avoiding
systemd on it, is not only a philosophical purpose.
The people who will use Devaun as desktop, will be "power user" so the
only important thing is to let the user choose what packages wants to
install and not create a complete DE as default at the moment of the
installation (like Ubuntu/Mind/Fedora does).

Ciao,
Alberto

P.S. I'm one of the firsts: I manage about 150 debian server
installation without gui, but my two desktops are a MacBook Air with
Mac OS, and an Arch Linux workstation with Gnome (and systemd,
networkmanager, pulseaudio and all these horrible things). Franco, are
you happy? ;-)

Il 16/02/2015 1:44 pm, Didier Kryn ha scritto:
> Hi folks.
>
> Considering Devuan is a major lifeboat of free Linux-based OS, I'm
> anxious about its destiny and therefore trying to figure out who
> is onboard, I mean the audience.
>
> 1) It is clear, by reading this list that part of us are mostly
> concerned with servers.
>
> It is perfectly arguable that people involved in servers'
> deployment do not want to dedicate time to tweaking a Linux-based
> desktop.
>
> Macintosh is definitely for these guys, first of all because its
> VM works like a breeze. Forget dual-boot: it's a waste of time.
> Nate told us the other day that a majority of Debian developpers
> follow the Mac way; the more I think of it the more sense it makes
> to me, although it is not my way.
>
> Gnome and KDE are aiming to produce a free equivalent of the Mac.
> OK, they're dropping freedom in the way, but they will produce at
> least desktops you don't have to pay for. They may eventually pull
> the carpet under the feet of Apple some day ... or not.
>
> 2) I also read that there are people who want to truely own their
> desktop. Some call them sentimentalists, but they are the people
> from and for wich free software arised.
>
> To summarize, I see two populations in the audience of Devuan,
> with slightly different motivations (I find myself in both): 1)
> Servers' admins, who have professionnal concerns about security and
> productivity and don't necessary care of the desktop, 2) DIY (and
> FIY ;-) ) addicts who want whole control on their desktop.
>
> This all comes from reading you guys during the past month,
> including Mr "FUCK FUCK FUCK" :-). But maybe I missed some people.
>
> Didier
>
>
>
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