It would both level off the learning curve and prevent attrition of new users if there were a beginners' setting for the UI. Throwing everything at them from the get go is absolutely daunting.

I imported a MIDI file I created with ChordPulse. It contains no instruments die to its unique construction. Upon loading it LMMS told me I needed sound fonts. I went and got some. They sit in my downloads directory because I don't know where to put them. If the manual tells where, I can't find it. ...