On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 19:28 +0100, Frantisek Zatloukal wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:40 PM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> I came across this question on Ask Fedora:
>
>
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/problems-making-dual-boot-fedora-w10/10766
>
> where the person is having trouble getting Fedora Workstation set up for a
> dual-boot-with-windows-10 environment.
>
> There's a paradox or irony here: this is one of the most complicated things
> we might ask completely new users to do, yet also, new users just dipping
> their toes are probably most likely to want the comfort of being able to
> boot back to their old OS.
>
> Do we have better hand-holding instructions for doing this somewhere that I
> could point this user to and which we could make more prominent?
>
I am not a bootloader/installer or UX expert, so maybe take my two cents
with a grain of salt.
Can't we have a button or dialog window offering "Install side by side with
Windows" to users installing Fedora somewhere where there is WIndows
already (or other Linux, but that might be more problematic)?
That could automagically mount the ESP, shrink Windows part (so the dialog
can contain a slider)...
That would definitely lower a bar for novice users. Also, from what I
remember, this sort of stuff should be safer on UEFI/GPT machines, so the
dialog can show just there?
We already do, pretty much. That's what you get if you use guided
partitioning: you drag a slider to resize your existing main windows
partition, and anaconda deals with bootloader partitions etc. for you.
If that breaks it's a bug.
The person in the thread used custom partitioning, which, well, expects
you to do more stuff.
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