Re: Installation
On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Weaver wrote:
>> But this, again, is not what is being advocated.
>> I see nothing wrong with a small educational process being incorporated
>> into the install procedure.
>
> There is the installation-guide¹.
The average newbie doesn't know about that until about a month after the
first successful install.........whenever that may be according to the
individual case.
It wouldn't be a good idea to put
> screes of explanation in the installer, would you want to read it all
> every time you installed a system? I could see the possibility of
> becoming "<enter>" or "<space>" happy.
'Screeds' are not suggested.
I might have to write something up to demonstrate.
>
>> The average end/home user would, in all likelihood, not even be
>> interested
>> in LVM initially and for, probably, some considerable time after that.
>
> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average
> end/home user.
Exactly, but that's the majority market and I don't see anything wrong
woth aiming for that.
Now, Ubuntu, that is more like the average end/home
> user.
Never tried it, but have found Mageia, Trisquel and VectorLinux interesting.
All of which I prefer to Linux Mint, which is what everybody has been
raving about lately.
Regards,
Weaver
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