Espionage724
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6 months ago Why would the version number matter to someone using a specialized spin? I assume the Astronomy F38 release is still receiving updates regardless of not being F39. If someone knows they need the latest Fedora release and have to download it through MediaWriter, why wouldn't they just keep defaults and choose Workstation? I assume most people choose the Fedora version based on their needs and not the version number. It's not like the user can will a F39 release of Astronomy if it doesn't exist.
For the first time I selected the Download option to see what this looked like, and it looked fine to me. Select the release you want, and on the next screen the latest release is selected automatically. I think it's user-friendly enough. If a new user wants the latest Fedora release without any other specifications, it's selected by-default (Workstation, 39).
The way Media Writer lets you select predefined downloads, you first get the option to "Select Fedora Release" (from among all of the various Editions, Spins, and Labs), and only when you click through to the next screen do you see a version selector.
But selecting a release without knowing what versions are available doesn't make sense. Most users are going to want to download some form of the latest Fedora release, but the way things are presented works against that goal.
Say I select "Fedora Astronomy" on the first screen. Well, as it turns out dependency issues torpedoed a Fedora Astronomy 39 release, so the only versions available are 38 and 37.
But the user who's looking at that first screen has no way of knowing that, and when they proceed to the second screen it'd be easy to miss that they're getting Fedora Astronomy 38 instead of some Fedora 39 release.