From fedora-devel-list Mon Oct 18 06:19:37 2021 From: drago01 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:19:37 +0000 To: fedora-devel-list Subject: Re: Fedora minimum hardware requirements Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=163453797308884 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============7714377108309174798==" --===============7714377108309174798== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000086204405ce9a8737" --00000000000086204405ce9a8737 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, October 18, 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and the new > 2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard > anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some very real reasons the > installer has gotten so huge". And keep it in mind for your own > projects. Yes today's hardware is not the same we had at that time. Saving disk space and memory for the sake of saving disk space and memory is to use your words "not worth it". > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 4:32 PM Robby Callicotte via devel > wrote: > > > > On Sunday, October 17, 2021 3:05:13 PM CDT Dan =C4=8Cerm=C3=A1k wrote: > > > They are also much more intuitive to use for your average user/ > newcomer > > > to Linux in contrast to a text interface (which will put them off whe= n > > > compared to the Windows or Ubuntu installer). Yes, a text interface i= s > > > much more resource friendly, but imho that will cause more harm than > > > actual benefit. > > > > I totally agree. If presented with only a text interface, I believe > that new > > Linux users would perceive the install experience as either too dauntin= g > or > > not up to par with other distros. > > > > Robby > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject. > org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject. > org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora- > infrastructure > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject. > org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists. > fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora- > infrastructure > --00000000000086204405ce9a8737 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Monday, October 18, 2021, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it worth paying hundreds of MBytes of installer space, and th= e new
2 GB minimum RAM to simply install Fedora? I'm not saying "discard=
anaconda". I'm saying "be aware of some very real reasons the=
installer has gotten so huge". And keep it in mind for your own
projects.

Yes today's hardware is not t= he same we had at that time.
Saving disk space and memory for the= sake of saving disk space and memory is to use your words "not worth = it".
=C2=A0

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 4:32 PM Robby Callicotte via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproj= ect.org> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, October 17, 2021 3:05:13 PM CDT Dan =C4=8Cerm=C3=A1k wrote:=
> > They are also much more intuitive to use for your average user/ n= ewcomer
> > to Linux in contrast to a text interface (which will put them off= when
> > compared to the Windows or Ubuntu installer). Yes, a text interfa= ce is
> > much more resource friendly, but imho that will cause more harm t= han
> > actual benefit.
>
> I totally agree.=C2=A0 If presented with only a text interface, I beli= eve that new
> Linux users would perceive the install experience as either too daunti= ng or
> not up to par with other distros.
>
> Robby
>
>
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