Thanks for your feedback.

It wouldn't make sense, because then we'd be covering two very different
installation methods simultaneously, both ubiquity and debian-installer.
We'd also be targeting two very different user groups. When you write
(good) documentation, it's very important to write to a specific
audience so you can take into account their individual needs and
existing knowledge. Writing for non-techs and techs simultaneously will
result in something that is unsuitable for both groups. I'm not
interested in producing a massive 200 page treatise on everything there
is to know about installing Ubuntu either, because *no-one* wants that
information. The new guide is being written in response to a perceived
user need. Please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/KarmicInstallationGuide and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/KarmicInstallationGuide/FAQs for more on
this.

Each guide should link to the other, in order to send users who've
accidentally arrived at the wrong guide on to the right one. This bug is
about changing the title so that it's immediately obvious which guide is
which. I haven't said that the new guide will be called the "Ubuntu
Installation Guide". We'll choose a name appropriate to the target
audience later on in the development process.

""Deciding arbitrarily that "newcomers have priority, so the old guide
should give up its name" seems unhelpful.""

I based the decision on the answers to the following questions: Which is
the larger user group? Which user group is more likely to be confused by
which guide? Is there a sufficiently large body of legacy users who will
be adversely affected by a name change of the installation-guide?

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Title of guide should be changed to avoid confusion with new installation guide
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/395360
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