Comment 2 for bug 395360

Thanks for your feedback.

It wouldn't make sense, because then we'd be covering two very different installation methods simultaneously, both ubiquity and debian-installer. We'd also be targeting two very different user groups. When you write (good) documentation, it's very important to write to a specific audience so you can take into account their individual needs and existing knowledge. Writing for non-techs and techs simultaneously will result in something that is unsuitable for both groups. I'm not interested in producing a massive 200 page treatise on everything there is to know about installing Ubuntu either, because *no-one* wants that information. The new guide is being written in response to a perceived user need. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/KarmicInstallationGuide and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/KarmicInstallationGuide/FAQs for more on this.

Each guide should link to the other, in order to send users who've accidentally arrived at the wrong guide on to the right one. This bug is about changing the title so that it's immediately obvious which guide is which. I haven't said that the new guide will be called the "Ubuntu Installation Guide". We'll choose a name appropriate to the target audience later on in the development process.

""Deciding arbitrarily that "newcomers have priority, so the old guide should give up its name" seems unhelpful.""

I based the decision on the answers to the following questions: Which is the larger user group? Which user group is more likely to be confused by which guide? Is there a sufficiently large body of legacy users who will be adversely affected by a name change of the installation-guide?