Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I,?“Why?”)

[Robin Laing]

On 2014-03-25 13:26, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 12:10 PM, Powell, Michael wrote:
>> I disagree; if a user is presented with the following filesystem
>> choices, btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, reiser4, reiserFS, and ZFS, and
>> each is presented equally with a single paragraph describing its
>> benefits, unless the user has prior knowledge about what is the best
>> choice for the intended installation goal, they're most likely going
>> to spend a great deal of time reading each paragraph. If you simplify
>> the choices to 4 instead of 8, the user has less paragraphs to read
>> and can make a decision faster.
>
> Agreed.  However, it might be a good compromise to list only the most
> common selections, with a button marked Advanced Options (There's
> probably a better label, but if so, I can't think of it right now.)
> containing the rest.  Beginners will, most likely, avoid that, but those
> who need/want the more specialized file systems will still have access
> to them.

This is something that I totally agree with.  And an final commit 
button.  I have had to abort installs because I missed some setting and 
couldn't remember where "That Damn Setting" was and clicked the wrong 
button.