Re: will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

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On Tuesday 10 July 2012 18:40:10 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 08:25 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 July 2012 00:02:16 Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:12 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > > > This lines up pretty nicely with live installs, by the way,
> > > > which currently make up somewhere around half of all
> > > > installations. And when
> > >
> > > Well, there's an obvious counterpoint there...*only* half of
> > > all people pick live images to use for installations, despite
> > > the fact they're a smaller and more convenient format. Did you
> > > consider the possible reasons why half of all people continue
> > > to choose to download the DVD (even though it's somewhat tricky
> > > to find), and the likelihood that 'I want to do things like
> > > installing multiple desktops' might be one of the reasons?
> >
> > Another point. I do several 100 Fedora/Windoze dual boot installs
> > every year. These are from one locally downloaded source set of
> > files. How do you include these in your statistics of 50/50.
> 
> We don't. It's long since been accepted that it's impossible to get
> perfect statistics, we just do the best we can with what we can
>  get. See the preamble to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
>  .
> 

In that case then don't base your argument on the percentage of 
downloads. I'd say from anecdotal evidence in my University  that 
there are 100's more installs done from the full tree/DVD than from 
live DVD/CD.

Regards,

Tony
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