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 < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Regards Dharmit Shah
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