Installation plays hardball

Jud Craft craftjml at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 16:38:14 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
>>  It's all there in the GUI, and it's completely configurable. Nothing is
>>  forced down on you, AFAIK.
>>
> That's true. However, it *defaults* to LVM.

i.e., users who did not change the defaults/do not know the
implications of the defaults/do not even know what the defaults are or
why they should change them, have LVM forced upon them.

Everyone who tries Linux is not a partition master.

It's a chicken-without-egg problem.  You don't gain more testers or
users, without lowering the barrier to entry in a friendly way.




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