2012/6/9 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Graham Anderson
wrote: On Friday 08 Jun 2012 22:43:48 Nelson Marques wrote:
It's nice that the install process is being reviewed
On this note, one thing that I think the Ubuntu installer gets right is the feature whereby the user specific choices such as timezone, user account and so on are entered after the package installation starts. This means that rather than staring at a slideshow or progress bar for 15 minutes the user is actually busy entering details while the system is being installed, then the choices are applied to the system at the end. This reduces the overall install time significantly. This is something I'd like to see in our installer.
I've done quite a few Fedora 16 and 17 installs the past few weeks.
1. 17 now has the "Try or Install" decision after doing a lot of "undercover" work just like Ubuntu, but they don't touch the disk until they know everything they need.
2. Both Fedora and Ubuntu offer to set up NTP; openSUSE doesn't, for some reason.
3. It seemed to me, though I didn't clock it, that once Fedora starts installing, getting everything onto disk is a good bit faster than Ubuntu and openSUSE. openSUSE used to be faster.
I find openSUSE still faster than Fedora... and GRUB2 in openSUSE actually works with my partition layout, that doesn't happen with Fedora, which I can't install with my layout since the beta ;)
These are minor differences, though, IMHO. They aren't going to drive adoption by creating new users or taking users away from Windows, Mac or other distros. That only happens via compelling value propositions and network effects.
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