On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
> It's all there in the GUI, and it's completely
configurable. Nothing is
> forced down on you, AFAIK.
>
That's true. However, it *defaults* to LVM.
i.e., users who did not change the defaults/do not know the
implications of the defaults/do not even know what the defaults are or
why they should change them, have LVM forced upon them.
Everyone who tries Linux is not a partition master.
It's a chicken-without-egg problem. You don't gain more testers or
users, without lowering the barrier to entry in a friendly way.