This has to be the best experience i’ve had installing Linux in a very long time. Fedora 44 installer feels very professional and has everything you need laid out in a way that anybody can understand.
it was a very enjoyable experience
the only suggestion i could make is have the live environment or the installer recognize if you’re on a hidpi screen so that everything can be scaled to a readable level. I did change it for myself before installing but for people who won’t know how, it would be a great quality of life update.
side note
the first time setup has no scaling options at all and you can’t get to the those settings until you’re done and boot the system
That’s unfortunate, because at the end of the installation process, the user is specifically presented with a link encouraging them to provide their feedback in Ask Fedora.
Afaik this team is still very small and has a workload of 200%. Aleksandra is sometimes around and I expect they occasionally skim the categories, but given the large mount of work they have, I expect the day is over when 50% of its bug tickets are processed. So there might be little time to monitor much more or even everything.
I might exaggerate, but the existing wish lists and to do lists presented to them are definitely much longer than their capacity.
An alternative not yet presented: they have a matrix channel (#anaconda:fedoraproject.org → NOT a support channel!). A quick feedback might be time efficient and allow them to skim. You can offer there to make a more thorough report if they are interested in a particular feedback, in order to avoid wasting time. But don’t take it personal if they do not have the time: … limited resources … they have to focus
Hopefully things change over the long term, when web-ui has more matured or more long term contributors come up by some means.
Thank you all for the good suggestions. I will try to get in touch with them but i do understand their plate is very full. I just posted here because as PG said that it does prompt you after the install to give feedback here.
I wish it was connected but i understand the reasons it can’t be.
I didn’t want to dissuade you. Sorry if it felt that way. It is much appreciated and valuable if users give feedback. Unfortunately many don’t. I just wanted to raise understanding for the situation of the anaconda team, because the situation has already caused some incidents in the past that ended quite hostile.
my only question would be. Is it an anaconda installer issue for hidpi or a gnome enivironment issue that it doesn’t auto detect your monitor to see if you would need scaling?
Even after the installer is finished, in the initial setup process it doesn’t even allow you to scale it
Hard to say without more details, and I’m no expert in the issue field you describe either, but I would suspect that the issue you describe is likely to apply to the live desktop at all, not only the anaconda window, right? If so, I tend to assume that’s not an anaconda issue.
Concerning auto-detection: that’s definitely not anaconda.
Such things can be also driver issues, which would make it to a kernel problem.
Reading your error elaboration, my first guess is not anaconda. But as I said, that’s too little information for a clear feedback. If you would want that, I would also suggest to open a new topic that is specific to that issue, because it is unlikely that many people will open this one (because they are likely assuming this is something about anaconda).
When the content is to small and you can not read it, you can press Ctrl & Shift and with the mouse wheel, it allows you to scale the installer window. It is a Web-UI and while on some browsers just the Shift & Scorllwheel is enough, others need the Ctrl & Shift to scale with the mouse wheel.
The settings just works for the Keyboard settings in the setup process.
I tested with the Mate-Compitz Spin. There I could change the resolution while I was in the Live mode. As I do have older Hardware, my system is not able to find the ultra wide resolution. This way I never have an unreadable screen.
