[fedora-india] A suggestion

Dharmit Shah shahdharmit at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 09:34:49 UTC 2010


Sorry. Shall take care from next time. And thanks for pasting it up here,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <
siddhesh.poyarekar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dharmit Shah <shahdharmit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I made a suggestion on Fedoraforum.org. A guy there asked me to
> communicate
> > directly with the fedora project. Since there are contributors from India
> I
> > thought of posting it here. Here's the link to my post. It's a humble
> > suggestion with no aggression. So if someone of you finds it harsh, don't
> > start firing me. :-)
> >
>
> It would have been nice if you could actually paste your suggestion
> here instead of simply linking to it (that too in html). It helps
> keeping context of the conversation for those who read the mailing
> list via the web interface. I will paste it here for you:
>
> ===================
> Hello,
>
> I am a happy Linux, specifically Fedora, user since almost 2 years.
> But I've tried various flavors of Linux till now. I've been telling my
> friends to use Linux and ditch Windows. Some of them have given a shot
> to Linux as well. But there is one thing that confuses many.
>
> During installation everything except partitioning is simple. For
> experienced Linux user, it is not an issue at all. But I've seen many
> newbies getting confused when it comes to partitioning. They generally
> use default option and at times it wipes out the entire hard disk.
> Windows' installation gives a very simple layout of partitions on the
> hard disk which makes its installation very simple for dumb computer
> users as well. The wiping out of data makes people feel like Linux is
> too tough to install. Even worse thinking that some people around me
> have developed is that Linux takes up entire hard disk in
> installation. On the contrary, we - the Linux fans, know that it
> hardly requires 5 GB of disk space.
>
> I think there needs to be little change or modification to the
> installer in order to make the installation bit more newbie-friendly.
>
> PS - I am not being harsh to Linux installation. I am die-hard Linux
> fan and want to see Linux flourish day-by-day. So this is a simple
> suggestion from my side.
> ===================
>
> Newbies never ever try to install Windows alongside another OS, so it
> would be unfair to compare installation simplicity based on
> partitioning. A fair comparison would be default partitions for
> Windows vs Linux (fedora, Ubuntu, etc) and they're not too different.
> I would vote for the Linux installer being better purely because it
> allows decent control in case of multiboot.
>
> As for the default option, I understand that it is to use all linux
> partitions and empty space as of Fedora 13 and that should not eat up
> your Windows partition. I have never had a chance to explore this
> lately though, since I have not installed Windows and Linux in
> parallel for some years now.
>
> --
> Siddhesh Poyarekar
> http://siddhesh.in
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Regards

Dharmit Shah
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