Arch has a better installer in my opinion
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I mean, archinstall is pretty nice! it's certainly not flashy but it's a great tool that gets you up and running very quickly with no hassle
Really good! Reminds me a bit of Mandriva Linux installer's look and feel. Yes, I am as old as rocks.
There is a reason for this: https://yast.opensuse.org/
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:YaST
Yast is opensuse's configuration/setup tool, and it's used in the installer.
You can also use it from the installed distro itself, even configuring things like grub.
I think people here are don't know and understand how customizable is opensuse's installer.
With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:
Give me the Debian TUI anyday. Clean, simple, to the point. Has become just muscle memory thanks to all the server VMs I’ve installed it in.
I am impressed, creating btrfs sub-volumes in a debian installation with muscle memory would look like magic to me (as a linux-beginner).
The partitioning and filesystem stuff feels very unsorted and confusing for me.
But if all the standard settings are ok for you and you only have to hit enter, I guess the installer is ok.
I mean yes, generally the standard settings are fine for my deployments so that’s what I’m talking about. I agree the partitioner leaves something to be desired though.
You could've shown a better screenshot I guess
Reminds of Windows 98 installation
This might just be me but I hate those bars. It better come with some sort of text output so I can see what's actually going on.
At least it tells you remaining packages
To each there own
Top bad it fucked my EFI so my NixOS can't boot 🥲
Debian: boring installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Almalinux: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Opensuse: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about an hour. WHYYYYYYYY?
It because zypper is incredibly slow. They’ve been slowly working on the features needed to make it faster but they haven’t come together yet. I would guess early 2025.
I don't like that it doesn't give you a live image by default. It's kind of hard to find them on the website.
I think my ideal installer would be one that boots into a desktop and by default installs that and copies everything you've done there onto the installed system. Like "here you can start using your system right away, we'll ask you a few questions and then do the pesky installation stuff for you in the background".
Help, why does this picture feel like it's ever so slightly tilted?
I bet it's something to do with the drop shadow. Seems like the center of mass is shifted, eh?
When I look at it as a thumbnail, it looks like the installation box is popping out of my phone. When I fulllscreen it, the illusion vanishes for me.
Yes, I guess it's just an illusion, zoomed too before to check, but after zooming out, I still see it wrong lol
I didn't see it until I read your comment
Much better
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