On 09/12/2012 02:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote:I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge.You are assuming the user is interested in learning. In my experience it is rather the contrary.
While this is true, I suspect (based on my own experience) that even the sort of
user who isn't interested in learning is likely to be happier with seeing an
explanation than with being confused by a question they know nothing about.
Which is likely to be more off-putting to a user who's never heard of a
"partition" or a "filesystem" before: encountering a "now it's time to partition
your system" prompt with no explanation of what this means, or encountering one
with such an explanation?
Admittedly, not presenting the user with such a prompt at all would be less
off-putting than either, but we may not be able to avoid that unless we relegate
the ability to control partitioning/filesystems to the full expert install - and
there may well be people who would prefer to handle their own partitioning, but
would not be comfortable with all the details of the expert install process.
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