On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, Powell, Michael wrote: [note >>>]
A non-gui installation is not something that the majority of users will choose so it's not apparent, but if you want that method, here you go: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ ch-guimode-x86.html#idm219166212128
Says who? And why not give the users that choice instead of hiding it?
The option or choice is given; why not make it more obvious? Because it would most likely pose more of a distraction to the target audience through clutter than it would ever get used; hardcore users that might favor a text installer are not the target audience anymore.
I disagree; if a user is presented with the following filesystem choices, btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, reiser4, reiserFS, and ZFS, and each is presented equally with a single paragraph describing its benefits, unless the user has prior knowledge about what is the best choice for the intended installation goal, they're most likely going to spend a great deal of time reading each paragraph. If you simplify the choices to 4 instead of 8, the user has less paragraphs to read and can make a decision faster.
IIRC the last time I did an install, there was a choice labeled something like "If you don't know what you need, this is probably it." It was the top option, but not the only one. The descriptions were one-liners, not paragraphs. Perhaps that should be the model. For filesystems, need might be too strong a word: "If you don't know what you want, this will probably work."