Re-reading this thread, I see that what the installer is doing could be
unexpected. It isn't the same as Widnows installers, which generally
only by default destroy a targeted partition rather than the entire
disk. In either event, I recall there is at least one warning.

For installing Ubuntu, the post by Chris Bainbridge seems to cover most
of the issue.

But after the warning message is shown, users should have something like
three options:

I know what I'm doing. Continue.
Use Custom Install to select Partitions to be overwritten.
Cancel and Exit Installer.

Something like that.

And my apologies for not realising that this behavior does differ from
what I as a long-time Windows  user (but new to Ubuntu) would expect to
be the default action of a well-written installer.

The most important thing is to get everyone of whatever background onto
the same page in thinking about what is about to be done by the
installer as quickly as possible during the installation process.

Ubuntu does not have to do everything the way Windows does it, but if we
are going to be different, we should let people know about the
differences when possible.

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