Michael A Peters wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 20:17:30 +0100, bram bram@diomedia.be wrote:
Would it not be a good idea to add a checkbox in the installer wich says yes automic partitioning but no lvm.
I think doing the custom layout covers that case adequately. I think for the
No, it does not. The *default* install should not be something that is worse than useless to the *average* user.
The average user does not accidentally delete their home directory by incorrectly cut and paste into an xterm window.
I don't know how many times this statement has been proven wrong in my experience. I have had to restore many directory trees from "average users" accidentally putting a space where they intended a single directory name.
Yes, not by "cut and paste" but by typo.
The rest of the stuff you wrote is opinionated, hence not really arguable. You love LVM. I won't argue that. I won't allow statements of fact to stand unchallenged.
The average user clobbers all kinds of stuff. Most restores of data I have done have not been as a result of hardware failure, but of average users deleting something accidentally.
Mike