On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1 December 2012 12:31, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros, >> I have never encountered a more baffling and cryptic screen >> than the one I ran into when I made the attempt to install >> Fedora 18 Beta from the DVD image: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882542 >> >> This has got to be the result of a group of maniacs >> giving each other feedback about how great this design is >> when they all know what everything means because they >> were there when it grew. > > >> Coming along after the fact and seeing it for the first >> time, I can't tell what on earth it is trying to convey, >> and I'm certainly not going to randomly try things when >> I'm potentially destroying the disks on my primary system >> if I interpret some part of this cryptic nonsense >> incorrectly. > > Why are you testing this software if you are afraid it is going to > trash your primary system? Did you realize that this email you wrote > was entirely unconstructive and not going to help yourself, other > testers or the developers in making the software better. No one is > forcing you to test this software so if you don't want to, don't think > it meets your needs, or is not going to work.. please don't. Well the point seems to be that the partitioning screen isn't really obvious to him .. tbh it is kind of awkward, but it is to late to fix that for F18. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
