On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:01:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> And the main lesson her is "don't clutter the user interface with >> useless graphical eye candy". It makes the boot process require >> unnecessary system resources. The new Fedora installation setup is >> currently a *nightmare*. It works very poorly through low bandwidth >> remote connections, the graphics are poorly labeled and very >> confusing, and the "spoke and hub" model is a bit of big vision >> coneptual weirdness that is actively preventing people from wanting to >> touch Fedora. It's an *installer*, keeping it as lightweight and >> simple as possible with minimal graphics means that it will display >> better on small virtual system or remote KVM displays. But this has >> been discarded in favor or an overly bulky and complex system that is >> showing off what are quite fragile graphical features rather than >> simply doing the *job*. > > Citation needed. Anaconda has been graphical for ages, and has probably gotten > lighter after the rewrite if anything. > > --CJD There's a reason I've tended to use the "linux text" option, which has, unfortunately, all but been discarded or been made useless with curses based tools that no longer match the options of the X based GUI's. And lighter or not, the GUI still takes longer to load and to browse around, especially in poor quality graphical environments. We don't all hae a bit screen to play with, some of us are working through virtualization systems or remote KVM's with limited and burdensome graphical tools that the X based installer hinders. Try installing an older or vaguely recent Fedora with pure text mode or a serial console, especially when your remote site can't afford real remote KVM's and has a serial concentrator. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
