Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

> Striving for usability and pleasantness for the untechnical users certainly is
> a good thing. It gets problematic when you choose to make things technically
> inferior just to please those kind of users.

We don't have to make things inferior to improve usability.  To stick 
with the "advanved storage" example:  IMHO the selection screen between 
basic and advanced storage is confusing and superfluous.  First it 
should probably be named "local storage" and "SAN storage".  Second 
anaconda can default to local storage if a local disk is present (option 
to add SAN storage needs to be there of course).  If no local disk is 
present it can go straight to SAN setup.  One screen and one mouse click 
less for most of the users.

cheers,
   Gerd