Some critics about Ubuntu

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_B=E5gfors?= <zindar at gmail.com> schrieb am 29.11.04 09:36:48:
> 
> > 2) The installation: It was easy. It was too easy. It was so easy that
> > I thought while my comp was working hard with selecting and installing
> > packages that I missed to answer a question of the installer right.
> > The installer went to install a big bunch of packages without telling me
> > what has to be installed. And without giving me the selection process.
> > Hey guys, where is tasksel in Ubuntu? Why didn't you make the selection
> > finer for tasksel and give the user many possibilities to install his
> > machine? Something like: only console, with X11, only console with
> > dev tools, with X11 and dev tools and so on...There are many thinkable
> > possibilities.
> 
> 
> This is the thing I like most about ubuntu. I install it and get a
> good default.  It's so easy to install and remove programs afterwards
> that anyone who wants a development machine for example can simply
> install it.

As I wrote in my other mail: Make a report screen sothat the user knows
what will be installed. 
And: The "first install anything and remove unwanted things later and install
not already installed apps after that" procedure is in my opinion too complex
for a beginning user. And for a beginning user was Ubuntu made, wasn`t it?

> And then you have the "custom" installer boot prompt...

But the new user first tries the normal install procedure. 
 
> I LOVE the fact that there is no tasksel in ubuntu.

In tasksel there is a great potential that was not worked out til today!
 
> /Erik
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