new look installer... why?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:02:01AM +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:

> What bad would follow from letting people to use mouse during the
> installation, if they feel more comfortable doing so?
> [...]
> Think of a person who comes from the Windows world and wants to give
> Linux a try. He might have never in his life hit "Enter" to accept
> anything - he has always clicked "OK" with the mouse.

This is exactly the point: helping users to feel more comfortable with the
system.

Unfortunately, the installer is a long-standing disadvantage of alternative
operating systems.  This is not because they have inferior installers: in
fact, many Linux distributions have more polished installers than Windows.
It is because most computer users never need to think about installing an
operating system, because it comes preinstalled on their computer.

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 - mdz