Am 04.12.2007 um 22:12 schrieb Caroline Ford: > An advanced windows user knows how to install new hard drives, [...]
Yes. Ubuntu says it exists to make _un_experienced users productive. > new drives should just work. gparted won't help here. If you want to make sure new, even unformatted drives just work, you have to provide some sort of one- click formating on the desktop. Something like "An unknown disk was found: [ignore] [initialise]". "Initialise" would format a single partition without asking further technical questions. Firing up the right application, finding the right disk in a partitioning GUI and making a making a good decision what to do is far beyond what an average human knows or wants to know. Even people like me (25 years of computing experience) have to find out each time what's the current state of device naming (hda, sda, disk1s3, which order, ...). > I don't know why you think my Ubuntu experience is improved by > giving me > less configuration options than Windows. Since when is MS Windows a measure for good user experience? After all, your favorite partitioner is just a "apt-get install" away. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
