Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 11 17:16:05 UTC 2010


Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) said: 
> That is certainly a big part of the problem. Anaconda does a _ton_ of
> crap that only very few users care about. And keeping all these minority
> features from falling apart is leaving you no time to polish the user
> experience for the large majority of users.

Correct. And any time it's suggested that certain parts of that crap
be removed to streamline things, people come screaming. (The discussion
about pruning the install methods is the one that comes to mind...
mm, nfsiso and hard drive installs.)

Bill


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