From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>
Cc: 47631@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0p38vse.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41cbd278-576e-f642-5a57-96b3c19241b6@riseup.net> (bo0od@riseup.net's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:00:21 +0000")
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:[~2021-04-15 14:31 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 [this message]
2021-04-16 2:19 ` bo0od
2021-04-15 22:31 ` Léo Le Bouter via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-04-16 3:13 ` bo0od
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