Feature #16907

Rename Tails Installer as Tails Cloner

Added by sajolida 2019-07-22 18:21:26 . Updated 2019-07-22 18:21:26 .

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Installation
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Description

Now that we are distributing USB images:

  • Tails Installer only exists in Tails (it used to be in Debian and Ubuntu as well)
  • Tails Installer is no longer the preferred way of installing Tails on USB stick (it used to be the case back in the days)

I think that it’s weird to call it “Tails Installer”. What remains from its use cases is to clone a Tails, either for installing or for upgrading and I think that we should rename it accordingly.

Using the “Use a downloaded Tails ISO image” option of Tails Installer it’s still possible to install Tails without cloning, but as analyzed on Feature #16906, I guess that this feature is not used very frequently.

I also expect that renaming to “Tails Cloner” will make it much easier for users to discover that it is possible to do such thing as cloning Tails; keeping in mind that now that we distribute USB images, people never use Tails Installer to install it from scratch.

So this change is not only aesthetic :)


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Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements In Progress 2018-08-31
Related to Tails - Feature #7049: Clone Persistence option in Tails Installer Confirmed 2015-01-27
Related to Tails - Feature #16721: Adapt the UX of Tails Installer to USB images Resolved
Related to Tails - Feature #16906: Use USB images instead of ISO images in Tails Installer Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-22 18:22:13

  • related to Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements added

#2 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-23 16:26:14

  • related to Feature #7049: Clone Persistence option in Tails Installer added

#3 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-29 11:01:06

  • related to Feature #16721: Adapt the UX of Tails Installer to USB images added

#4 Updated by sajolida 2019-12-02 18:37:12

  • related to Feature #16906: Use USB images instead of ISO images in Tails Installer added