We could make two versions of the ISO, one that is manual install, like Arch, and one that has a graphical installer, such as Manjaro.
On 07/06/2017 12:03 PM, Josh Branning wrote: > See, I'm in two minds. On the one hand there is user experience, and > on the other hand there is architectural elegance. > > I cannot think of a solution. If the graphical installer is included, > you lose some architectural elegance, if it's left out, you lose some > user experience. > > As it is, I agree that parabola currently firmly lives in the > architectural elegance camp, at least for the CLI version. > > I think most people would agree that the current MATE desktop is not > architecturally elegant as it stands, nor the best for user > experience, so whatever the decision with that, there is likely to be > an improvement with the graphical iso regardless. > > I did think that you could possibly exclude the graphical installer > and have it as a package instead, instructing users to download it, > but that would break the new no-internet-connection aspect(s) of the > installer. > > You could produce or remaster two graphical ISOs, one with the > installer, one without, but I think that may be too much work and > perhaps be too picky and be too much of an ask. > > It is already known that some people would want to dd to a usb and > have an installer present. If I am correct in saying a dd'ed iso image > from a usb runs entirely in RAM then few will be dding the image as a > +RW portable OS, meaning they shouldn't care if an installer is present. > > All in all, I think in this case there is no real wrong answer, > especially no wrong answer worth fighting over. > > TBH, I'd probably use the LXDE iso with the installer myself out of > laziness and speed of installation. > > With that said and out of the way of, from a user perspective, I would > like the command line version of parabola to have a command line > installer too, both for LXDE desktop and cli installations. > > On 06/07/17 19:09, bill-auger wrote: >> >> >> much the same as megver just said - i tried to make the argument that >> GUI support is desirable in the other thread >> https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2017-July/005685.html > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Winter Taylor Jones Free Software Foundation Member Industrial Workers of the World Member Workers Solidarity Alliance Member _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
