Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 01:07:26PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> That is certainly a big part of the problem. Anaconda does a _ton_ of
> crap that only very few users care about. And keeping all these minority
> features from falling apart is leaving you no time to polish the user
> experience for the large majority of users.

I do not see why we should remove functionality (and almost everything
is there for a good reason) to "polish the user experience".  I do not
even see that the latter is needed (the things mentioned in the initial
mail we really minor things and/or probably quite easy to add), but
that's maybe my fault as a hard-core UNIX guy...

I recently had to install a SLES system for some experimental reason
and ended up with a screwed-up system (read: MBR), probably because
the user experience was so polished that it didn't want to ask me
the things it *should* have asked :(.

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