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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> But I'm not talking about it for users like you and I. |
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> I've said over and over in this thread about regular users and you seem |
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> to be missing that part; it's the entirety of everything I'm saying |
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> here. I didn't say LVM shouldn't be available, I said that installers |
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> shouldn't put it up front and centre in the user's face claiming that |
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> it's awesome. |
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> Your average user has no idea what volume management even is and are |
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> completely lost when it comes up. They just have no mental image of what |
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> it even could be and a tool that is not understood and not used is not |
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> worth installing. |
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And yet most Ubuntu users who have no idea what volume management are |
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running just fine with it all the same, and at some point if they ever |
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need to move things around it will make life that much easier for |
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them. |
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The fact that they've had no issues running this as their default |
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configuration demonstrates that it isn't unsuitable for "regular |
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users." I'm well aware of the argument you're making. I simply |
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disagree with it, as apparently do the maintainers of Ubuntu and the |
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businessmen making money off of it. Decisions on a |
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commercially-backed distro generally don't come down to the whim of |
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one person, at least not if they actually cause problems. |
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As far as symlinks go - they're a royal pain in the rear as they force |
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you to micromanage what ends up on which disk, and then when your |
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convoluted rat's nest of symlinks starts to become a problem it |
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becomes that much harder to fix it. Symlinks and mountpoints used to |
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be the only tool in the toolbox, and to this day half of your OS is in |
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/usr and half isn't as a result. :) |
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Volume management is a best practice, and it is right for Ubuntu to |
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make it a default for those who don't understand the pros and |
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virtually non-existant cons. |
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Rich |