Re: Dear Debian (re your downloads page)

Dear all

     First of all, perhaps I should apologise for the tone of my 
original message. It was a bit harsh; sorry. (Nor did I realise that I 
was sending mail to an entire *list*!)

     For /the download page itself 
/(http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/), 
my thought was this: it would be better to have something less 
forbidding-looking (for some users) than a simple directory listing, and 
also something that offered a bit more guidance (to those who need it). 
So, as Kyle Keevill said, yes, something

     > less techie and dumbed down to a level suitable for the average
    computer user

except that, if nothing is lost (by way of choice or information) then I 
don't see that such a change must count as a dumbing-down.

     More than one of you was kind enough to ask whether I had a 
/replacement /in mind. Well, how about something along the lines of what 
Mint offers (http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php)? Or, better perhaps, 
Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop). And the suggestion by 
Stéphane Blondon seems a good start.

     As to the /other /page, namely https://www.debian.org/CD/live - 
which is where one reaches the 'directory list' page . . well, similar 
things hold.

Yours hoping to be helpful

Nicholas
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