Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Oct 12 15:13:34 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:06:59AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On 10/12/10 7:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:16:49PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> >> The only way to accomplish this without actually removing the features is 
> >> to have two anaconda modes one for easy desktop installation and one full 
> >> featured mode. This mode should be chosen not by the user but by the spin 
> >> e.g. the desktop spin would use the easy mode and the server or workstation 
> >> spins would use the full featured one.
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> > Anaconda actually has the ability to do this with "install classes".
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> Anaconda used to have an Advanced mode where things like the complex
> partitioning and package selection were hidden.  Turns out, the vast
> majority of people who used anaconda and said something about it had
> picked advanced mode, because they felt their case was special.  If
> everybody uses advanced mode, that becomes the norm...

Making "advanced" only a choice at the beginning of a 10 step process 
is a non-starter and leads to the problem you describe above.  If 
instead there were "Advanced Options..." in each step along the way 
that could be opened/closed at will, that would allow users to explore 
the advanced options without worrying that they made the "wrong 
choice" way back at the beginning of the 10 step process, whether or 
not they actually end up using the advanced options.


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