Re: more newbie-friendly dual-boot instructions?

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On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 13:49 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 10:37:05AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How confident are we that if they'd picked guided partitioning, it would
> have Just Worked? I am happy to gently say "you're getting a more
> complicated experience because you picked the option labeled 'advanced
> custom'", but I don't want to do that if the guided option won't work for
> some reason.

In that particular case, file under "not very", because it seems odd
that what the user describes themselves as doing didn't work. As
described it *should* have worked.

But in *general* I'd say "fairly". I'm not aware of any huge bugs in
the guided flow. In a typical scenario it ought to work.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net


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