On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Adam Williamson wrote:
There are probably a thousand questions we could ask at the first stage of install that would allow various small groups of people to have a more 'tailored' installer in some way. How do you decide which to ask and which not to ask?
One might put alleviating pain before convenience. Font size might be a show-stopper for some people. A lot of other things can be fixed after one has a running system. Also, one could post the list and ask the users. On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, John Morris wrote:
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 08:46 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: would be better than playing catch up later. It wouldn't even have to involve numbers and stats most people wouldn't understand. Autodetect everything and use that to display a sample dialog with a simple statement/question. "Fedora has automatically detected your display and hopefully adjusted itself to it. Is the text in this dialog: [Too big] [Too small] [Just right]"
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