I just installed d7 alpha locally using wamp. The install process went fairly smooth as I didn't need to setup cron and mail in test mode like this.

I am leaning towards liking the whole module thing and it reminds me of many other scripts. However, there is no explanation to what they do. As a long time Dolphin user some of them I am kind of expecting what they do. But to someone new, this is going to confuse the heck out of them if there isn't a little documentation or at the very least a brief see more description.

I have only messed with this for 1 or 2 hours, and already I can assume a lot of confusion for the average user somewhat familiar with dolphin. And someone new to Dolphin, this just went from a lot of confusion in dolphin 6 to a ton of confusion in dolphin 7.

I do realize that this is alpha, and many bugs and changes will be worked out over the coming weeks. All these cool features, new layout and design is great and all, but only if people can actually figure out how to use them. So far what I see is these new features are not the easiest to figure out for the average user. Time will tell, and hopefully things will improve and be more self-explanatory.

I do like it so far! Looking good, I hope for many improvements as we head into beta and eventually a stable release. It is very nice to finally get a look at the admin panel.