R.C. Primak (bobprimak)
> What is really needed, is for anyone attempting to install Ubuntu to find on
> some prominently labeled Web Page
The problem is that people won't find or read the web page. All it would
take to fix this issue for the vast majority of new users is a final
popup confirmation box that says:
This operation will DESTROY existing data!
Windows C: drive with 200GB of data will be DELETED
Windows D: drive with 150GB of data will be DELETED
Are you really sure you want to do this? Type YES in capitals to
confirm.
The advantage of a "final check" is that it would also catch people who
just do not realise that they are about to delete their Windows
partitions - like this guy 2 days ago:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/482785/installed-over-windows-8-partition
or this girl 5 days ago: http://askubuntu.com/questions/481065
/accidentally-deleted-windows-partition-when-trying-to-install-ubuntu
Windows may have the same problem with their installers, but Ubuntu is
in a slightly different situation, in that Ubuntu users more often want
to install and dual-boot with their existing OS, whereas most users re-
installing Windows will want it to the the sole OS. The Ubuntu project
encourages people to download and install Ubuntu, whereas Microsoft
encourages new users to buy a PC with Windows pre-installed. So Ubuntu
ends up with a higher percentage of new users trying to do a dual-boot
install, and so needs to be more careful with deleting data.
As pointed out above, it is odd that not adding a swap partition results
in a warning and confirm dialog, but installing over a Windows partition
full of data is fine...
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