On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote:
Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them.
And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't
ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always
succeed in their penultimate goal which is to install a bootable OS.
Frankly, the vast majority of the users of those operating systems
aren't even capable of installing them by themselves.
And there are essentially zero user complaints about these
installers.
There's nothing at all to even complain about because they don't do
anything except meet their primary requirement. Not even their
developers or testers even complain about the installer, it does one
thing successfully.
I see. Maintainability preceeds flexibility by reducing/eliminating user
influence at the same time. While it took over 100 years in medicine to reduce
"i know what's best for you" and moving towards "shared decision
making", it
goes the other way 'round here. Fortunately, there are still distributions
which let the user have the desired influence.