Only handle the simple cases. When they don't tell you exactly what they are going to do, well then they are useless because you can't trust them. Gonna touch the gpt ? Gonna create a hybrid mbr? Gonna force me to use CSM? Gonna *touch* any other partition than what I tell you??? hard pass.
I actually miss the older style gui installers where you picked all your options and which packages you wanted to install first, then let 'er rip. I guess asking too many questions up front was seen as intimidating to newbies.
This is a pretty common pattern among installers. You give users two paths in the GUI: Quick and Advanced. Anyone who doesn't know what they're doing can pick Quick, and just answer minimal questions: Locale, Timezone, Username, Password, etc... More experienced users can pick from most common options experienced users might require, like selecting filesystems or partitions, or use sensible defaults if they don't know what a particular option does. Advanced users can do what they want on the CLI.
Yep, that's how I installed Fedora the last time I did it. Went throught the quick setup, switched to Advanced to see if the defaults were what I really wanted..(they were), and started the install. Easy-peasy.
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Only handle the simple cases.
When they don't tell you exactly what they are going to do, well then they are useless because you can't trust them.
Gonna touch the gpt ? Gonna create a hybrid mbr? Gonna force me to use CSM? Gonna *touch* any other partition than what I tell you???
hard pass.
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I actually miss the older style gui installers where you picked all your options and which packages you wanted to install first, then let 'er rip. I guess asking too many questions up front was seen as intimidating to newbies.
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This is a pretty common pattern among installers. You give users two paths in the GUI: Quick and Advanced. Anyone who doesn't know what they're doing can pick Quick, and just answer minimal questions: Locale, Timezone, Username, Password, etc... More experienced users can pick from most common options experienced users might require, like selecting filesystems or partitions, or use sensible defaults if they don't know what a particular option does. Advanced users can do what they want on the CLI.
Re:GUI installers (Score:2)
Yep, that's how I installed Fedora the last time I did it. Went throught the quick setup, switched to Advanced to see if the defaults were what I really wanted..(they were), and started the install. Easy-peasy.