On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dharmit Shah <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
