From: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 47631@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 02:19:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49641a6e-880a-0bbb-2794-053f348d779d@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0p38vse.fsf@gnu.org>
> For now, our focus is on improving the guided installer itself.
Ok as you wish why not, But please dont give something less than what
Debian installer providing.
Ludovic Courtès:
> Hi,
>
> bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net> skribis:
>
>>> Did you try the graphical installation?
>>>
>>> https://guix.gnu.org/en/videos/system-graphical-installer/
>>>
>>> It’s key strokes rather than clicks, but I think it addresses most of
>>> the issues you describe.
>>
>> Yes i do know this, But whats different between what guix is doing and
>> others are doing (examples i gave above), They give you access to GUI
>> of their distro without internet and from within this live GUI access
>> to the distro you can configure the internet/partition..etc (easily
>> specially for first time users) using GUI tools without internet (you
>> can even test the distro without the need to install it)
>
> Letting users use GUI (or non-GUI) tools by themselves doesn’t look
> appealing to me. We made the choice to provide a guided installer,
> similar to that of Debian and other distros, such that users don’t have
> to figure out by themselves that they need to run gparted, follow steps,
> etc.
>
>> Thats what im requesting not what is currently happening.
>>
>>> Did you try the live VM image?
>>>
>>> https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/
>>
>> What? where?
>
> Search for “QEMU”.
>
>>> I’m closing because I don’t see anything actionable. Please file issues
>>> focused on specific problems.
>>
>> Guix need to improve itself when first time initiated, Please check
>> other projects like NixOS,Triskel,Mint,Ubuntu...etc
>
> I contributed to NixOS long ago, and unless things have changed, it
> doesn’t have a guided installer.
>
>> If you dont like that live graphical gui access, then do it as debian
>> is doing it which give you proper gui screen specifically intended to
>> configure your internet then you can proceed with the installation.
>
> So I guess your primary request is about giving access to the GUIs.
> That comes at a cost (the ISO is already quite big) but that’s something
> we could consider.
>
> For now, our focus is on improving the guided installer itself.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 5:13 bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache bo0od
2021-04-15 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-15 10:00 ` bo0od
2021-04-15 14:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-16 2:19 ` bo0od [this message]
2021-04-15 22:31 ` Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-16 3:13 ` bo0od
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