Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Máirín Duffy]

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 19:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:44 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > Sadly enough, this means that a shiny Ubuntu installer is to the whole
> > distribution what GNOME shell is to the GNOME project. It doesn't matter
> > if you've got a lot of bells and whistles underneath, or what you can
> > do, if you don't look pretty while you do it. It's just the reality. I
> > would venture that one of the reasons Rich sent his mail originally is
> > that he's aware of this mentality and pointing out its effects.
> 
> You forgot to qualify the above paragraph: it doesn't matter _to a
> distribution reviewer_. We aren't necessarily making Fedora for
> distribution reviewers.

But impressions that get spread around do tend to haunt you.

The most technically-superior solution unfortunately doesn't always
enjoy the popularity it could have. (e.g. Beta max :) )

~m