I personally never had issues with the current Anaconda ui, although maybe that’s because I’m used to it, and I’ve heard some users have had issues with the current one.
My only concern is that they are going to use Firefox for the UI, and to my knowledge, Firefox has some telemetry settings that are by default enabled.
You can disable wifi when using the iso to install Fedora so telemetry wouldn’t be an issue.
Firefox is preinstalled on Fedora anyway
That’s my plan as well if Fedora doesn’t disable Firefox’s telemetry by default.
That being said I also wonder how would this even apply for non live ISOs like Silverblue/Kinoite/etc, since they’re just the installer without the desktop environment. If there was Firefox telemetry there too it would be annoying since one would need to physically remove the Ethernet cable to install offline. Then there’s also net ISO’s like Fedora everything, which obviously need an internet connection to install.
Yes, but before it was just another application and not an integral part of the system/installation process before. I mentioned system because I noticed in Fedora Silverblue 41 (not sure if it was like that in previous releases) that Firefox is listed in gnome-software as a system application unlike the other applications like gnome text editor or loupe (the image viewer) for example.
If I disable the telemetry settings from Firefox, would it still be a problem with this new installer ?
I’m not sure. Probably would depend if they use the settings from .mozilla/firefox in the home directory, or if it uses settings from somewhere else.
There’s also the fact that fedora variants like the ostree ones or Fedora Everything don’t load the desktop environment at all, thus making it impossible to open Firefox and change the settings (although this also raise the question of whether those variants will also use a Firefox webui for it’s UI, or if it’s only for the workstation variants).
True. The non-lmc ISOs launch a GNOME kiosk. In theory you could use a TTY and spawn Firefox, then disable the telemetry, and it is running with Mutter so you can close it too.