On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 19:28 +0100, Frantisek Zatloukal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:40 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I came across this question on Ask Fedora: > > > > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/problems-making-dual-boot-fedora-w10/10766 > > > > where the person is having trouble getting Fedora Workstation set up for a > > dual-boot-with-windows-10 environment. > > > > There's a paradox or irony here: this is one of the most complicated things > > we might ask completely new users to do, yet also, new users just dipping > > their toes are probably most likely to want the comfort of being able to > > boot back to their old OS. > > > > Do we have better hand-holding instructions for doing this somewhere that I > > could point this user to and which we could make more prominent? > > > > I am not a bootloader/installer or UX expert, so maybe take my two cents > with a grain of salt. > > Can't we have a button or dialog window offering "Install side by side with > Windows" to users installing Fedora somewhere where there is WIndows > already (or other Linux, but that might be more problematic)? > > That could automagically mount the ESP, shrink Windows part (so the dialog > can contain a slider)... > > That would definitely lower a bar for novice users. Also, from what I > remember, this sort of stuff should be safer on UEFI/GPT machines, so the > dialog can show just there? We already do, pretty much. That's what you get if you use guided partitioning: you drag a slider to resize your existing main windows partition, and anaconda deals with bootloader partitions etc. for you. If that breaks it's a bug. The person in the thread used custom partitioning, which, well, expects you to do more stuff. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
