The Ubuntu Linux installer is pretty user friendly compared to, say, the Slackware installer.

Yet, I still have something to complain about it. Yes, I know! My complaint is rather silly, and perhaps ought to be ignored by the world. Keep reading this post and decide whether or not I’m crazy.

Wait, what is my complaint? See the below screenshot and explanation.

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See those multicolored bars in the screenshot? You know, the ones that are giving a graphical representation of the partition layout. The coloring of the partitions are inconsistent. Green represents the new Ubuntu installation, and /dev/sda6 (a Fedora Linux installation). Oh, not to mention that green also represents /dev/sda5 in the top bar.

Is that it? No, I’m not finished.

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See, another example of confusing inconsistency! First of all, simply switching the radio button changed the color representing Ubuntu from green to blue. The color representing /dev/sda1 (Windows Vista) still remains blue, though.

Are my complains silly? Yes, but I think that a confusing diagram is one of the worst things to put into a software application capable of destroying one’s hard drive with a misplaced click, especially when operated by technophobes (what, you haven’t told your mother to switch to LInux?).

So go ahead, think that I’m simply complaining because I feel the need to publish a blog post. I’ll just sit in my corner and continue complaining about colors.