On Mar 08 07:20:56, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 03/08/12 06:48, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:50:15 +0100
> > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> >
> >> Furthermore, the more chatty installer is, the less amount of
> >> newcomers would be reading the messages.
> >
> > I had a thought last night, how worrying that my mind jumped to OpenBSD
> > in front of the TV. It occurred to me that it wasn't too long ago that
> > the installer switched from asking to partition first or had less
> > questions at the beginning and flicking through those quickly may
> > explain why the op hit enter so readily and why this hasn't come
> > up before when the first question was a more important one. Then again
> > I have doubts it will ever come up again too.
> >
> > What was the reason for the re-order?
>
> It was reworked so that in the most common, simplest installs, you could
> just hit ENTER for almost everything quickly and up-front, then walk
> away and let the install take place (keep in mind, while many users love
> their five-minute-install amd64 systems, a lot of developers use
> machines where a full install may take a long time. We like to be able
> to walk away and come back to a finished install, not find out its been
> waiting for us to answer another question).
I remember this being the first selling point for me
back when I did my first install. The OS installs I did before
(various linuxes) took considerably more time (not mentioning
a certain non-open-sourced OS, whose install took hours),
and you HAD TO BE THERE ALL THE TIME AND STARE AT THE SCREEN,
just to press an occasional OK every now and then.
The feature of giving it all my input and walking away
was the very first sign that this is what I want.
Jan
