Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:24:02AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:30 pm, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > 1. Partitions. Although it offered to guess partitions for me, it
> > presented me with a menu with all the sizes and various options. As much
> > as *I* understand, I wouldn't expect anyone else to understand it. It
> > should be skipped, or put behind an "Advanced Setup" button so people
> > don't mess it up.
> 
> I noticed that too.  I think since it's shown as a confirmation page, it's 
> probably not a big deal, but people new to Linux still won't want to see it.  
> I think that once Sarge is released, the expectation is that people will 
> "skin" the installer and make prettier, maybe even GUI interfaces.  I know 
> the new installer was designed for that.  Since that's the type of interface 
> a non-technical user would likely use anyway, I hope that won't be an issue.

Yeah, I didn't make that clear: it is just a confirmation screen. It 
still feels like it's missing out on the whole "Don't let the user mess 
anything up that they shouldn't need to anyway." I personallly think 
that this screen is just asking for the user to mess it up :)

> > 2. Resolution - The monitor came up with a default 800x600 resolution.
> > I had to edit the xfree config file manually to get it to work. (The
> > monitor is a 15" LCD, which goes up to 1024x768.) I know as a user, I'd
> > be pissed off at that.
> 
> I'm curious how you did monitor selection?  Did you maybe select 24bit color 
> and not have the video memory to support that bit depth and resolution? Or 
> did you let it do everything automatically. I haven't had an issue yet, but 
> I'd like to know what to look out for.

I honestly have no clue. I didn't remember doing anything at all 
regarding the video card or the monitor, which was why I was surprised 
when it worked at all :) I don't remember makinga  guess at video 
memory, or at color depth, so I'm not sure how it decided what to do: 
all of the setups seemed like they were definitely very basic, like I 
would expect from a default X install, rather than something which was 
configured.

All in all though, much less painless process than installing Gentoo 
was... ;)

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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