On 2014-03-24 08:25, Liam Proven wrote:
On 23 March 2014 21:56, lee lee@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:
Installing on a laptop requires encrypted partitions. They can be stolen too easily.
I have never ever used this and never expect or plan to. I suggest that your blanket statement is too sweeping.
This is good but I agree with Lee, encryption is necessary on a laptop, a business one especially. Lack of encryption could be a court case.
Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written much to but mostly read from, so you might put the partitions that can be read-only on the SSDs and use magnetic disks for things like /var, /tmp, /home and swap.
Machines come with dozens of gigs of RAM now. I'm not sure there's much argument for swap at all, and personally, I use tmpfs for better performance and a self-cleaning /tmp tree.
New machines come with dozens of gigs of ram. Try getting a laptop with that much ram. tmpfs is a great idea for privacy but it is a pain on a lower end machine. Found that out the hard way.
And it`s not too difficult. The installer doesn`t need to do the partitioning, the user does it. The installer only needs to give the user a good tool to do the partitioning the user wants and let them use it. Good tools to do partitioning are already available, and the installer doesn`t need to re-invent the wheel in that.
I mostly agree, but bear in mind that the installer must cope with both experts and novices. That's a tough call.
I'd say it's /too/ simplified at the moment, though, and I think you might agree...?
And that needs to be an option that is clear to the person doing the install. Simple choice. Easy or custom. Not clicking Done and then getting to choose the partitioning options.
Perhaps it even shouldn`t. Why force the user to learn how to use yet another partitioning tool they even rarely use unless they install Fedora all the time? Why not give them a choice, like either cfdisk or parted, then tell the installer what to do with each partition and let them switch between these until they are done --- or let the installer do whatever partitioning it wants, which means that all existing data on the disks will be deleted.
Mostly, I would agree, actually.