Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Casey Dahlin]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:01:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> And the main lesson her is "don't clutter the user interface with
> useless graphical eye candy". It makes the boot process require
> unnecessary system resources. The new Fedora installation setup is
> currently a *nightmare*. It works very poorly through low bandwidth
> remote connections, the graphics are poorly labeled and very
> confusing, and the "spoke and hub" model is a bit of big vision
> coneptual weirdness that is actively preventing people from wanting to
> touch Fedora. It's an *installer*, keeping it as lightweight and
> simple as possible with minimal graphics means that it will display
> better on small virtual system or remote KVM displays. But this has
> been discarded in favor or an overly bulky and complex system that is
> showing off what are quite fragile graphical features rather than
> simply doing the *job*.

Citation needed. Anaconda has been graphical for ages, and has probably gotten
lighter after the rewrite if anything.

--CJD