On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:19:45AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > > > Btw, I don't really suppose this new change in anaconda is an act > >of purposeful obscurantism -- but the result is not significantly > >different. If the developers were deliberately trying to drive non- > >technoid users away, they could hardly do it more effectively than by > >this and several other changes (such as package kit and network manager). > > > I have to agree, FC10 is absolutely the worst install available. I have it > on five machines now, and in every case I had to do video tricks to get a > working display. I think the people who put in that animated boot display > took control, and were more concerned with having people oh and ah over the > animation that have a working default video mode like 800x600, and have the > graphics *fit* instead of depending on screen scrolling, which also doesn't > work on several machines I tried, even if you know it's there. > > I have still been giving out FC9 DVDs to people, FC10 is just geek material > as far as I'm concerned. FC10 is great software, but a hideous install.
Bill, I'm not disputing your experience. I've only installed F10 on a single
machine, my eeepc 901, but on that machine it "just works".
As there is a LOT of variance from one machine to the next, I don't
doubt that there are those where it is less smooth than my experience.
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