I don’t know, there must be very very good reasons for the new installer.
I boot from the live image and look around to see if everything looks fine.
Then I click on the “install” icon in the dash.
Nothing happens for ages. So long that I think it crashed and of course I manage to open two main windows and a pop-up asking for Firefox master password. That tells me part of the thing is a Firefox session.
So I close everything and try it again.
This time I wait for the window to open, it is black with “initializing”.
It takes so long that I get bored and I manage to resize the window and move it partially out of the workspace and I cannot put it back in place.
Again, this time I don’t touch anything and then the main interface opens.
There are very few things to check so I commit the installation.
It takes at least three times longer than the old installer and all this time I must look at that rotating thingy on top that doesn’t provide any information besides “still alive”.
End of the rant. I don’t see the advantage and it is painfully slow and maybe even fragile (since you can touch things you should not).
I think this is just with the net-install possible. While booting with the Workstation image I just can enter the live system and then starting it.
Did you mean to abort the auto run of the installer and start it from the dash manually?
To everybody:
Yes, I am using a very low specs system.
Which is not an excuse for having an installer so painfully slow and for using a Web interface for critical operations.
Once installed, I can use regular Fedora Workstation without any major issue.
I can browse the Internet and to anything else using the same Firefox as the installer and I don’t think Youtube and Gmail should be less hardware intensive than the installer.
This looks like Firefox OS.
It is good that we do give feedback to the developers. However in first place also Fedora looks forward and counts with new hardware which is released since older computers have been sold.
So for that, the older Hardware will have an issue to keep up with the new installation process.
Anyway I do agree that a basic text oriented or less resource hungry alternative would make sense. Even for systems which need devices like braille-reader and Orca Software to make the installation possible.
As Fedora released the new Installer just for Gnome also shows that a bigger feedback is expected to do adjustments before all the other Editions/Spins and Labs get upgraded.
p.s.
I added screenshots of F42 Workstation and Net-Install to demonstrate that there are some changes/differences in between the ISO’s.
