Hello, A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO image starting a desktop-environment by default. The attached patch modifies the installation image so that it starts a GNOME session. The installer is then automatically started, inside a gnome-terminal. The resulting ISO image is bigger: 3.9G without compression and 1.7G with compression. Now, I'm not sure this is something we want to merge as-is. Maybe, it's time to port the installer to a GTK3 application, or a Web application. As we already have something working, porting (gnu installer) to a new graphical backend, could be not so hard. I don't think I'll have the bandwidth to do this anytime soon, but is someone is interested, I'm willing to help/review :). Thanks, Mathieu
I think a Qt-Based application could be a good idea as an
installer.
Also there is an installer `calamares` developed by Qt. It's
plugin based and
we can develop/customize GUIX specific plugins of `calamares`.
So we can have a GUI Installer more faster. Currently the
`calamares` is used by many other distros like `Lubuntu` and
`Manjaro`.
https://calamares.io/about/
https://calamares.io/calamares-2.0-is-out/
Also we can choose `LXQt` as the default DE for installation. So
we can have a smaller ISO image with a lightweight and capable DE.