And honestly if they want a bare metal test, a newbie really would be best served with a live USB wouldn't they? If they decide its not right for them they can pull it out. And no mucking with partitioning. And VM is best for the ultimate lazy just want to try it with no effort case.
I mean for newbies if they have to learn the intricacies of partitioning with the penalty of losing their running windows system that's really quite a high punishment for learning smtg quite difficult. A very bad foot to start them off on esp if we want to expand our reach to a broader more inclusive audience. Honestly I grew up partitioning using fdisk on the cmdline back in the day and I can't even do it without a great deal of trepidation when real valuable data is on the line. Safely and easily doing that with Windows is very hard to achieve and maintain. I think the best solution would remove the requirement for users to learn abt partitioning and reserve that brain space for learning about Fedora itself and how awesome it is.
I dont know the state of persistent live installs these days - I know it previously has been pretty shaky. If it's better now, then if we could set them up with that it'd be ideal. Maybe we could recommend some nice USB flash drive HW for the task as well.
~m
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