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From: "Simen Endsjø" <simendsjo@gmail.com>
To: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I tried Guix for half a day but had to go back to NixOS
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0zxix75.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DA266620-73D2-4D43-9D2B-02FB832AC397@yasuaki.com>


Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com> writes:

> As the title says, I tried Guix for half a day 😅
>
> I wanted to let you know that:
>
> * Graphical installer run from a USB stick was broken.  I went 
> insane, asking the questions already answered and kept repeating 
> them.   So I could not get past the partition phase.

I believe this is because of a really bad case of UX-fail. I hit 
the same loop,
and found out that particular question had a different default, so 
I kept
jumping back to start instead of accepting and continuing :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-23 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-23 15:21 I tried Guix for half a day but had to go back to NixOS Yasuaki Kudo
2020-06-23 15:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-23 16:06 ` Simen Endsjø [this message]
2020-06-23 17:03 ` zimoun
     [not found] <mailman.101.1592928025.16768.help-guix@gnu.org>
2020-06-25  2:58 ` jgart
2020-06-25  8:48   ` zimoun

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