Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.
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I don't know man, Debian's TUI installer is just neat. It does the job.
Yeah, you only have to look at these once. Absolutely no point except eye-candy for a fleeting moment.
.I don't even care for graphical boots. Give me all the boot messages scrolling by.
Yeah it's alright. I've been using Tumbleweed on my Desktop PC for the last few months and I gotta say it's mid. They do hard drive unlocking in Grub instead of in the initfs which means that only LUKS 1 and with that only the not-so-secure PDKDF is supported, instead of argon2id which is the modern KDF you want to use. This is a small and annoying oversight in the distros security which is why I will not be using it in the future
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Huh, I haven't installed SUSE in at least 10 years and seeing the Gecko is giving me a bit of nostalgia. I may have to run an install and see what's changed.
I still prefer archinstall‘s TUI install script (I just wish that it would offer to install yay as well)
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No, Ark Linux (not Arch) had Tetris in their installer, so we could play while we waited. It has been discontinued unfortunately.
Wow I'd never heard of anything like that before, that's pretty dang cool.
I know some Minecraft mod packs used to have pong integrated in their loading screens.
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If we’re being honest every release without this status bar being the tail unfolding OR the tongue extending to catch a fly is a waste.
Just because of the loading bar? You're easy to please 😁.
Not just loading bar it's everything about the aesthetic in the menu, logo on the top, installation steps on the side and loading bar on the middle just enough to fill the screen while not being too crowded or overwhelming
Was just kidding 😁 Keep that feeling, it's a great one ! I love to see other people enjoying such simple but powerful brain flooding dopamine ! That awwwwww moment is really enjoayble, for others and yourself !
Hope you will have fun with openSUSE ! I'm also thinking to switch from Debian to OpenSUSE for my daily drive. Debian as server is fantastic, but got some quirks running it with backports and testing.
Maybe a skill issue? Probably, but trying something different will give me the necessary boost to find out 😄
And then there's the installation options that look and behave exactly like a regularly themed Qt application (which it probably is). Wonderful!
Okay, I'm coming from Gentoo and Debian, cut me some slack, I'm easy to please regarding installers :-P
No shame in that, I also get the warm fuzzies when I see a nice installer.
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I mean, it is something surprisingly absent from most installers
You apparently haven't tried Ubuntu in 20 years? Canonical has had a very clean Windows-ish experience forever, though even back in the day, Suse always had a pretty decent one as well.
Ubuntu is still just one series of distros
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No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:
😜
Another old school, it's very similar
Ironically, this one is better designed than their current one lmao.
This one is second not OpenSUSE is still the best for me XD
Oh hey, I remember that screen. I have seen it many times. Many, many times. Oh God, so many times.
Still more than you remember
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I also like that it installs the apps right after first boot in microos. That's awesome. Unfortunately I like the image based system of fedora a tiny bit more.