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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 13, 2013 14:06 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience by Yenya
Parent article: Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Although you are engaging in the fallacy of thinking that you can take people who have expertise and interest is say GRUB and magically make them work in the installer instead, RAID UI is being redesigned as well

http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2013/03/11/raid-re-do-for-anaco...


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Duffy: Improving the Fedora boot experience

Posted Mar 13, 2013 18:21 UTC (Wed) by jke (guest, #88998) [Link]

He's also engaging in the fallacy of believing his personal experience is parity with most users. His personal experience doesn't answer the question he asked (the first line) any more than mine does. (I boot at least daily.)

Even if he's right about what most users do, he still has to establish that ignoring the minority is the right thing to do. Linux operating systems have an extensive history of being good for the long tail. We owe much of its success to it.

Also, if booting is not important because of its frequency then it stands to reason that installation (Anaconda) is not important for the same reason, right? How often do people install Fedora anyway? Certainly less often than they boot.

At any rate, unless one thinks that Anaconda's shortcomings were really the result of it being developer starved, there's no reason to wave the "Priorities Now!" flag (even if developers were a generic blanket resource that could allocated willy nilly).

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