On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:43:05AM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > That "feature" is not limited to the cd version. It is also in the netinst > version and the dvd versions. It would be nice if people intuitively > understood that the "base system" was not going to meet their expectations of > a minimal install, which includes a desktop environment, but noobs don't > understand that. Equally nice would be an "advanced installation" option to > only do a base system installation. Making the selection of a mirror and > desktop environment an unskippable part of the installation, unless you chose > that advanced "base system" would be very user friendly, particularly for > noobs.
That would presume that the majority of users of the installer wanted to install a desktop environment. This is not necessarily true even for beginners, on say, server machines. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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