I don't get it, how is "bouncing around" faster? I
bounced around for an
eternity when I installed F20 on my new laptop. Earlier it used to take me
something of the order of an hour to get everything done, this time around it
was so frustrating I gave up after a couple of hours more than once, finally
one weekend I decided I get this done or I do not sleep.
Absolute ease of use is what they're going for and the easiest way to achieve that is
to reduce the amount of information a user has to process.
Bouncing around or free-form favors hiding details and relying on defaults; it's not
ideal for every user, but it does lessen the information to process and thereby the time.
By comparison, the old installer forced users that relied on defaults to process almost as
many screens as someone that wanted to customize everything.
I don't think they have the right balance, but I think they can fix it...
More information is not a problem, if it is something that is
non-essential, an
"optional" label next to it should be enough. This time around my main
problem was anaconda just would not let me choose the partition sizes I
wanted. In the end I went with putting in a skeleton scheme that would let
me install Fedora, and alter the partitioning as I wanted post-install. This is by
far the worst disk partitioning interface in a Fedora installer I have used since
F10 (I started using Fedora regularly then).
I completely agree that the partitioning UI needs work...