On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:30:30PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - I don't believe that new Linux users trying to dual-boot Windows and > > Linux are the primary audience that the installer has to cater to. > > They're important, but I think that Debian in particular has tended > > to be better at attracting users from other Linux distributions than > > from the Windows world. > That's true, but one of the main reasons this is so is the fact that > people more comfortable with Windows have found our installer confusing > in the past. It can be questioned whether they still will do so if we > replace the installer... But this isn't something we should bet on, if it means possibly making the system more complicated for our existing userbase. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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