Things I already hate about Kubuntu (new user)

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:45:38AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 12/20/05, James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:
> > This is the default behaviour for every Linux I've ever installed.  At one
> > time I was running 4 different Linux distros on the one machine and each one
> > added itself to the top of the boot order as I installed them.  You don't
> > like it - edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (read on - there are other options).
> 
> That is justification by tradition, a known logical fallacy. Just
> because all of the other distros suck and do the wrong thing doesn't
> mean we should emulate them. This is incorrect behaviour, IMHO.

The reason everyone does it this way is so that their installer can
actually complete properly without you having to select something
manually from the boot menu. I wouldn't object to it being selectable in
expert mode, but I maintain that it's the correct default.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]