On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 13:07 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > Right now, when you start Fedora live media to install Workstation or KDE or > etc., you get an ugly text prompt which defaults to doing a media test > (although it's not actually even clear from the highlighting that that's the > default). > > I think since burning spinning optical media is no longer the normal way to > do this, we should drop this and just go straight to booting (unless of > course a key is hit to stop things and enter boot parameters). > > In my experience with USB sticks (and i've probably made over 500 of 'em in > the last few years), the most likely failure modes are like this: > > 1) Doesn't even write properly. > 2) Doesn't boot after you created it. > 3) Fails hard and it's definitely done > 4) Random transient errors > > The test media option doesn't actually help with any of these except maybe > making #3 happen slightly sooner. With #4, it actually means that in some > cases you'd be fine just doing the install and the test fails. > > Let's just go ahead and get people started faster. Could we maybe just bump it down to the 'troubleshooting' menu or whatever it's labelled there and have it not be the default, rather than remove it entirely? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
