Re: larry

[David Pastern <david@scsenterprises.com.au>]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:54 +1100, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:13:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:
> >Yes and exactly that is the point why debian-installer rules, and the windows 
> >installer sucks. 
> 
> Yes and no. Take the new partitioner, for example. Yes, it lets you do
> more than the old partitioner, but if you think it's intuitive you're
> nuts. And not only is it not intuitive, it's different than anything
> anyone's used to partition things in debian before. So while it's more
> friendly for new users, it's like a martian to an experienced user who's
> comfortable with fdisk.
> 
> Mike Stone
> 

So new is bad?  Different is bad?  It's the same old rhetoric that the
Catholic Church has been spreading for the past thousand years.  If it
conforms from the norm, it's bad.  It's wrong.  Baloney.

As much as I liked the old installer, there needed to be improvements to
be made, there were too many areas where it was weak.  You can argue to
the cows come home, but the fact that Debian senior developers decided
that the installer was updated says a lot I think.  And if you hear the
number of people happy and impressed with the new sarge installer, then
all is good.  Why should 90% of the users be unhappy to satisfy the 10%
that don't want to change?

Dave

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