I think people here are don’t know and understand how customizable is opensuse’s installer.
No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:
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Ironically, this one is better designed than their current one lmao.
I was genuinely about to say how the openSUSE installer looks incredibly similar to the Windows XP one
There you go, peasants.
Everyone is nostalgic to XP so they decide to make part of a different operating system look very similar to it just for nostalgia sake
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
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.
Small history lesson for those interested: the reason we didn’t see much of this sort of thing is because Namco actually had it patented, up until late 2015. Originally, you could play Galaxian while you waited for Ridge Racer to load! (At the expense of everyone else being able to have little loading screen games…)
Really good! Reminds me a bit of Mandriva Linux installer’s look and feel. Yes, I am as old as rocks.
Debian: boring installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Almalinux: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Opensuse: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about an hour. WHYYYYYYYY?
It because zypper is incredibly slow. They’ve been slowly working on the features needed to make it faster but they haven’t come together yet. I would guess early 2025.
I still prefer archinstall‘s TUI install script (I just wish that it would offer to install yay as well)
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since when?
Give me the Debian TUI anyday. Clean, simple, to the point. Has become just muscle memory thanks to all the server VMs I’ve installed it in.
If it’s in muscle memory, I think you should look into automation.
With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:
Just because of the loading bar? You’re easy to please 😁.
I mean, it is something surprisingly absent from most installers
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
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 :-PNo shame in that, I also get the warm fuzzies when I see a nice installer.
Help, why does this picture feel like it’s ever so slightly tilted?
I bet it’s something to do with the drop shadow. Seems like the center of mass is shifted, eh?
When I look at it as a thumbnail, it looks like the installation box is popping out of my phone. When I fulllscreen it, the illusion vanishes for me.
Arch has a better installer in my opinion
I mean, archinstall is pretty nice! it’s certainly not flashy but it’s a great tool that gets you up and running very quickly with no hassle
