http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html
Wow.
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Fedora 18 comes with a new installer - provided you get it to run. What is immediately apparent is a somewhat over-large interface with would-be friendly fonts and sizes and shapes. And there on, it gets worse. You enter a world of smartphone-like diarrhea that undermines everything and anything that is sane and safe in this most important of software configuration steps.
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It gets worse once you hit the installation destination nonsense. You get disks represented visually. That's it. Not by their names. By identical icons with labels that refer to actual disk models. Not /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, which is what you expect. No. You get the manufacturer's model strings. And I happen to have two identical disks. So which is which? I'll give you a hint, the two disks are shown in reverse order, /dev/sdb first, /dev/sda second. What moronity.
Again, you get that orange warning, and the hyperlinked disk summary and options gives an empty screen. And then, on the right, an option to Encrypt the disk. And look at the lovely position of that element, how it aligns so well with everything. Then, you have the Done button at the top and a grayed-out Continue button in the right-bottom corner. WTF?
And we're still not done. Now comes a dilemma. What happens if you select a disk and proceed? Is it going to be formatted? Is it going to be erased? What will happen to my data? The system has four operating systems already installed. Holy banana, I'm crapping solid cubes right now.
The next thing that happened is - I selected the first disk, at that time thinking it was /dev/sda, and then, another orange message popped up, telling me no bootloader was selected. Again, WTF? How is this my fault in any way? What the hell is going on?
Now comes the best part. After pressing Continue, which was no longer grayed-out, even though the Done button in the top left corner is still available, Fedora complained about space. Just look at the message. Amount of free space:, nothing, next line, You don't have enough, and so forth. Lovely jubbly. The Partition scheme configuration lets you do LVM, RAID and standard partitions. And then you can check that box saying, I don't need help.
The only way to continue is to click Reclaim space. There's no option to cancel and add more disks or to modify software selection. Which reminds me, what software selection? How much s*** can there be in one installer? And what does Reclaim space do? Does it instantly modify partitions?
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In all my life testing Linux and other operating systems, I have never ever seen an installer that is so counter-intuitive, dangerous and useless, all at the same time. And the worst part is, it follows some fellatious mantra created in the sunny vale that has no value in our four physically proven dimensions.
Smartphones? No problem. Ever installed one? Yes. You use an external software running from some laptop or something. You do not dual or multi-boot. You do not mess with data, as it is stored on an SD card you take out. And you definitely do not partition or care what happens. So can you imagine what comes out of an unholy marriage between the desktop installation and smartphone logic? Yes you can. You just saw it happen. And I would rather be violated by a honey badger than have to redo this installer crap. CRAP!
. . .
Fedora 18 comes with a new installer - provided you get it to run. What is immediately apparent is a somewhat over-large interface with would-be friendly fonts and sizes and shapes. And there on, it gets worse. You enter a world of smartphone-like diarrhea that undermines everything and anything that is sane and safe in this most important of software configuration steps.
. . .
It gets worse once you hit the installation destination nonsense. You get disks represented visually. That's it. Not by their names. By identical icons with labels that refer to actual disk models. Not /dev/sda or /dev/sdb, which is what you expect. No. You get the manufacturer's model strings. And I happen to have two identical disks. So which is which? I'll give you a hint, the two disks are shown in reverse order, /dev/sdb first, /dev/sda second. What moronity.
Again, you get that orange warning, and the hyperlinked disk summary and options gives an empty screen. And then, on the right, an option to Encrypt the disk. And look at the lovely position of that element, how it aligns so well with everything. Then, you have the Done button at the top and a grayed-out Continue button in the right-bottom corner. WTF?
And we're still not done. Now comes a dilemma. What happens if you select a disk and proceed? Is it going to be formatted? Is it going to be erased? What will happen to my data? The system has four operating systems already installed. Holy banana, I'm crapping solid cubes right now.
The next thing that happened is - I selected the first disk, at that time thinking it was /dev/sda, and then, another orange message popped up, telling me no bootloader was selected. Again, WTF? How is this my fault in any way? What the hell is going on?
Now comes the best part. After pressing Continue, which was no longer grayed-out, even though the Done button in the top left corner is still available, Fedora complained about space. Just look at the message. Amount of free space:, nothing, next line, You don't have enough, and so forth. Lovely jubbly. The Partition scheme configuration lets you do LVM, RAID and standard partitions. And then you can check that box saying, I don't need help.
The only way to continue is to click Reclaim space. There's no option to cancel and add more disks or to modify software selection. Which reminds me, what software selection? How much s*** can there be in one installer? And what does Reclaim space do? Does it instantly modify partitions?
. . .
In all my life testing Linux and other operating systems, I have never ever seen an installer that is so counter-intuitive, dangerous and useless, all at the same time. And the worst part is, it follows some fellatious mantra created in the sunny vale that has no value in our four physically proven dimensions.
Smartphones? No problem. Ever installed one? Yes. You use an external software running from some laptop or something. You do not dual or multi-boot. You do not mess with data, as it is stored on an SD card you take out. And you definitely do not partition or care what happens. So can you imagine what comes out of an unholy marriage between the desktop installation and smartphone logic? Yes you can. You just saw it happen. And I would rather be violated by a honey badger than have to redo this installer crap. CRAP!
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