On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 16:39 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Personally I think both Fedora and openSUSE have way too many options. Simplicity is a big "selling" point!
That is entirely other issue... afaicr this was discussed in another thread some time ago.
But perhaps they might reconsider the amount of experience of the user who installs suse for the first time.
Perhaps the default installer should only ask two questions: 1) Are you an experienced Linux user [default off] 2) Are you sure to modify the content of the hard disk [default off]
If you blindly hit the enter key, nothing will happens (just be be safe)
If toggle just the second one, yast should perform installations without any further questions. And some time later you'll have a default desktop.
if you toggle the both, you should get the normal installer, where you have the option to determine to create the system as you think fit, without the need to remove afterwards things you don't like. [that is something i like about SuSE and really hate at some other distro's]
Hans
Ubuntu has led the ease-of-use parade and Fedora has followed. openSUSE is lagging and Debian and Gentoo are sitting on the sidewalk jeering at the horses. ;-) If I were designing the next round of openSUSE, I'd make only the KDE LiveCD and full install DVD as official branded media and migrate everything else to SUSE Studio Gallery appliances one could clone, build and download. I wouldn't even store built appliances - let the user use his/her own disk space allocation for that.
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