On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:43 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote:
> There should be new options for resetting the persistent overlay and > booting with no persistence. The default options should boot with > persistence and setup of persistence should work. > Neal, Matt, what is the rationale for enabling persistence for the default boot option? I have mixed opinions about this. One of the benefits of a Live image, as we use it today, is that it's always the same/fresh. If I use it and then hand it over to a friend/colleague, I don't need to worry that some personal files (like a browser history) were left behind. I also don't need to worry that I (or the previous user) made some changes which would negatively impact the installation process or my user environment (like configuring a different keymap, or installing some updates). It's always as the creators intended. With the proposed Change, suddenly I need to care and need to worry. My impression is that currently persistence use is basically non-existent. Our well-advertised tools like Fedora Media Writer don't support it. Even if we flip this to make it easily available (which is probably a good thing), how many users do you estimate would actually want to make use of it? Who would want to work from a Live image regularly? I'm sure there are some use cases, but they seem so niche to me, that making it a non-default boot option wouldn't be a problem at all. I wonder if you've thought about this and why you decided to propose making it enabled by default. Thanks.
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