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Mark,
Thanks for the reply. Some things to consider I think are, having simplified something what the alternatives are for someone;
in this case if they want to do it they end up having to edit a critical system config file or two as root.
So yes, it is a very slight simplification of the installer, but for someone who wants to set the name it's a VAST complication - could you explain to someone who wasn't that computer literate how to set the name? How many broken machines do you think we'll get from people trying but screwing up the edit? How many people are going to think Ubuntu is really hard to use because something simple requires them to edit a text file as root?
I suggest this is a thing that normal people would *need* to set in a reasonable number of cases (just two network PCs in the house wouldn't be unusual even for a non-geeky setting).
Dave