Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5 on Alienware laptop

[Chris Murphy]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> And that shows you how long it's been since I needed to do a fresh install.
> I have no problem with getting extra things installed for dependency, but I
> would have a problem with being forced to have every text editor Fedora
> offers installed instead of letting me decide which ones I want on my
> computer.

You aren't. So I'm not sure what you're asing.

> Linux is supposed to be about choice,

http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

> but from what I've been
> reading, whoever is maintaining Anaconda seems to be doing their best to
> give users as little choice as possible.

If you're talking about on-disk layouts, see Windows and OS X which
have 2-4 possible layouts, compared to anaconda's hundreds. And their
installers have essentially zero bugs, I'll argue as a direct result
of lack of superfluous features appeasing partition ninjas (who as yet
aren't ninja enough to just do all of that stuff on the command line
in advance - but hey happy days with blivet-gui you can have the best
of both almost).

If you're talking about live media pre-baking things you may not like,
that's not coming from the installer team. They'd prefer to get rid of
live media because the install environment can be made
non-deterministic the longer its used before an installation starts,
so troubleshooting it is harder.

I think you're just better off using netinstall media for your
described use case.


-- 
Chris Murphy