Comment 40 for bug 628087

I don't see setting the name as advanced, and the old installers filled it in so that people didn't have to think about it.

It's a perfectly normal thing to do during installation and removing it is a serious pain since there is no easy way to change it afterwards. By all means remove it from the installer and then provide a simple way of changing it (I suggest System->Administration->About this Computer as a suitable thing to add to mirror the About Me box).

It's just not too unusual to have lots of people with the same name and hence the same default name, and as soon as you start having ad-hoc networks it all gets horribly confusing.

Please either add an easy way to change it back or put the behaviour back in the installer as per earlier versions.

(I think this is a general case of over-simplification - please don't take it too far!)

Dave