Hello,
Although I generally agree with the idea that "newbies" should be helped with installations of Fedora, possibly a dual boot with Windows, I believe that the way is through special newbie documentation (something like Welcome to Fedora Docs) where the most important will be correctly described with possible consequences, so that those people can make a proper judgement made on what they know.
Live Fedora is much slower than the regular system, so the overall first experience is not very good, especially if you are used to fast running Windows. Then the first idea is "OMG, that is slow. Why shall I even bother?" -> you need documentation to explain.
VMs are nothing easy for that kind of newbies, that Máirín suggested above ... ergo you need some documentation to explain.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:28 PM Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So by newbie, you don't mean newbie, you mean has-a-luxury-of-time-to-learn-from-scratch-how-to-partition-hard-drives-and-aware-of-other-distros-and-their-recommended-procedures-and-knows-what-a-distro-is-in-the-first-place?
By newbie I was thinking rather than shuffling the deck chairs on the S.S. Already-Uses-Loonix *and* was born before 1995, actually getting a fresh population to try hopping aboard! Ahoy!
If they can buy a USB stick at a local drugstore, stick it in, download an exe file and install and run it, it's already asking a lot I think of the specific audience I was eyeing (bored and quarantined remote learning students who own one computer and can't F it up or they can't go to school.)
VM would probably be better and lower risk except that gets dicey cuz you dont know what VM software they're using.
Anyway, my misunderstanding! 😜 Although please please consult the installed team before making any multiboot recommendations in an official capacity!
I hear you on the not wanting to make things complicated which is why I am suggested dual boot should be out of the equation.
~m
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