Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Lars Seipel]

On Monday 11 October 2010 23:44:01 Farkas Levente wrote:
> but our opinion simple do not count. better is what most user like. period.

We all know that's not true. In an ideal world the best things would also be 
those with the most success. Sadly, in reality this doesn't apply. Just look 
what the most popular newspapers are. Do you really want to tell me these are 
the ones offering the highest quality journalism available? At least where I 
live, the most popular newspapers are also those most full of crap. In the 
best case they just write trivial nonsense, whereas most of the time they use 
their popularity to push their own agenda. Nevertheless they sell most of the 
copies, whereas many papers used to be known for their high quality are 
struggling for their existence. No, in reality there is not always a 
correlation between popularity and quality.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that popularity is bad. But when the price we 
have to pay for being popular is heavy (i.e. doing something that makes Fedora 
inferior from a technical point of view)  this should be well considered.

Speaking frankly, I want to help making an operating system that is excellent 
in technical terms. Popularity is certainly nice to have, but when it requires 
actions that are contrary to technical excellence it clearly comes second. I 
don't want to do anything against better judgement. As long as Fedora doesn't 
depend on selling as much copies as possible I think that's an reasonable 
approach. But that's just my humble opinion. Everybody is free to have their 
own.

Lars.