Comment 4 for bug 1980180

Coming from an end-user standpoint, I believe that updating Calamares in Ubuntu 22.04 will have a direct, positive effect on our user base.

The installer is one of the first things (if not the first thing) a user notices about a distro, and having installed many distros, you can usually tell a lot about how usable and stable a distro is based on how intuitive and stable the installer is. If I have a bad first experience with an installer, I expect the distro as a whole to be difficult to use and potentially buggy. Likewise, if the installer works great, I expect the distro to be well-developed and usable. So far, this has proven true with virtually every distro I've tried.

As Simon and Erich pointed out above, the installer is only present in a live session, and is removed after installing the system. As a result, it is unlikely to have any effect on the out-of-box experience for a user after installation, so long as the installer itself doesn't cause any problems to the system during installation. I would expect this update to improve the installer's functionality, making it deliver a more stable and usable distro.

Since the installer will either improve or at least not interfere with the out-of-box experience, it's my opinion that this is low-hanging fruit. It's a change we can safely make, that may have a highly positive effect on some of our users for not one, but two flavours of Ubuntu.

As part of the testing process for the updated Calamares version, I have a dedicated testing laptop that will allow me to assist in the testing process, helping to ensure that an updated version of Calamares won't result in a degradation of quality for our end user base. In addition to the testing done by our usual testing team, I will be personally looking for bugs and helping to evaluate Calamares 3.2.60's suitability for being SRU'd into Ubuntu 22.04.

I hope this message finds you well.

Reviewed-by: Simon Quigley <email address hidden>
Reviewed-by: Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden>