On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 07:14:57PM +0000, Powell, Michael wrote:
The old installer did a much better job of 'guiding' the user through a set path of installation which achieved greater visibility and made it hard to skip or miss options. Of course, the negative side was the user could have an overwhelming feeling due to the tremendous amount of time it took to go through everything. The new installer sacrifices visibility and guidance for a more free process that sometimes has a very cookie-cutter or blank feeling to every screen, but it drastically reduces the time spent in installation since the user can bounce around wherever they want.
I don't get it, how is "bouncing around" faster? I bounced around for an eternity when I installed F20 on my new laptop. Earlier it used to take me something of the order of an hour to get everything done, this time around it was so frustrating I gave up after a couple of hours more than once, finally one weekend I decided I get this done or I do not sleep.
More information is not a problem, if it is something that is non-essential, an "optional" label next to it should be enough. This time around my main problem was anaconda just would not let me choose the partition sizes I wanted. In the end I went with putting in a skeleton scheme that would let me install Fedora, and alter the partitioning as I wanted post-install. This is by far the worst disk partitioning interface in a Fedora installer I have used since F10 (I started using Fedora regularly then).