Installers

[kc1di]

I was asked the other day by a Local linux newbie which distro has the easiest installer.
My answer surprised him. Fedora 43. The new fedora installer is very simple to use and requires few op interactions. Of course if you want absolute control of the install
other installers and Distro would be your choice. All Linux installer except Arch and maybe Linux from scratch or Gentoo are quite good now a days. Most major distros such as Mint Debian ubuntu manjaro Etc all have good install instructions also. In any event the new fedora installer is very easy to use.

 

[garyn]

Many years ago Linux was a nightmare of endless pages of questions about partitions and applications to be installed and it made many potential users run back to Mac or Win.

Nowadays, I personally never found Mint anything but straightforward to install.

Learning the GUI for personalizing and general maintenance is also no more difficult than others.

 

[KGIII]

The new fedora installer is very simple to use

I've not yet seen this new installer you speak of. I didn't find the previous installer to be all that difficult, so I'm surprised they've changed it. It's downloading now. It'll get spun up in a VM, and we'll see where it goes from there.

The Xfce spin sounds like a good idea. I haven't played with that DE in a while.

 

[kc1di]

I've not yet seen this new installer you speak of. I didn't find the previous installer to be all that difficult, so I'm surprised they've changed it. It's downloading now. It'll get spun up in a VM, and we'll see where it goes from there.

The Xfce spin sounds like a good idea. I haven't played with that DE in a while.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[KGIII]

Let us know how it goes.

I'll hopefully have time to poke at it this weekend. I'm quite curious, so it seems like something I'll do.

Now that I have all the bandwidth I need, it's trivial to download large files. (I have not, in fact, tried to download the entire internet.)

 

[Condobloke]

(I have not, in fact, tried to download the entire internet.)

lack of storage space ..?

 

[dos2unix]

(I have not, in fact, tried to download the entire internet.)

No pain, no gain

 

[KGIII]

lack of storage space ..?

Oh, I have plenty of space -- but not enough space for that. Still, I have quite a few TB of free space available.

Hmm... We don't condone piracy, of course. I will mention that torrenting appears to be faster than most servers can provide. Once the handshake is done, and metadata gathered, a couple of GB is done in just a few minutes (with enough peers).

No pain, no gain

LOL I have downloaded a bunch.

Oh, I just checked, and I do have vnstat installed on this computer. So, I used about a TB's worth of data last month. It is predicting that I will use 1.2 TB this month. I wasn't even sure if I had it installed, but I do.

I'm still getting used to having this much bandwidth.

 

[bob466]

I would say..many Ubuntu based Distros are easy to install.

 

[KGIII]

So, it's Anaconda with a 'web ui'. I mean, sure, that's probably easier -- but I'm not seeing it as being that much easier.

Maybe it's just me? I've used a few installers in my day, though lately just in VMs.

Also, it runs very slowly in my VM. It took a couple of minutes to open the installer itself.