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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year ago

OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made

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OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made

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  • @[email protected]
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    33•1 year ago

    • @[email protected]
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      4•1 year ago

      Much better

    • @[email protected]
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      Help, why does this picture feel like it’s ever so slightly tilted?

      • @[email protected]
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        4•1 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes, I guess it’s just an illusion, zoomed too before to check, but after zooming out, I still see it wrong lol

      • Tlaloc_Temporal
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        I bet it’s something to do with the drop shadow. Seems like the center of mass is shifted, eh?

      • navordar
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        12•1 year ago

        I didn’t see it until I read your comment

  • @[email protected]
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    Top bad it fucked my EFI so my NixOS can’t boot 🥲

  • @[email protected]
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    2•1 year ago

    Reminds of Windows 98 installation

  • @[email protected]
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    11•1 year ago

    I still prefer archinstall‘s TUI install script (I just wish that it would offer to install yay as well)

    • @[email protected]
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      6•1 year ago

      OpenSUSE also had a TUI installer IIRC, it’s YaST-adjacent.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•1 year ago

        😊nice little fun fact

    • @[email protected]
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      1•1 year ago

      Use paru not yay.

    • ᗺark dor
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      • @[email protected]
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        1•1 year ago

        since when?

      • @[email protected]
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        Is it? 😮 it still works well for me, need to research in that case

        • @[email protected]
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          https://github.com/Jguer/yay

          Doesnt look like that, many translations but also normal maintenance

  • @[email protected]
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    There is a reason for this: https://yast.opensuse.org/

    https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:YaST

    Yast is opensuse’s configuration/setup tool, and it’s used in the installer.

    You can also use it from the installed distro itself, even configuring things like grub.

  • @[email protected]
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    10•1 year ago

    This might just be me but I hate those bars. It better come with some sort of text output so I can see what’s actually going on.

    • The Liver
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      At least it tells you remaining packages

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  • @[email protected]
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    3•1 year ago

    I don’t know man, Debian’s TUI installer is just neat. It does the job.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      Yeah, you only have to look at these once. Absolutely no point except eye-candy for a fleeting moment.
      .I don’t even care for graphical boots. Give me all the boot messages scrolling by.

  • lurch (he/him)
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    No, Ark Linux (not Arch) had Tetris in their installer, so we could play while we waited. It has been discontinued unfortunately.

    • @[email protected]
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      Wow I’d never heard of anything like that before, that’s pretty dang cool.

      • qaz
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        16•1 year ago

        I know some Minecraft mod packs used to have pong integrated in their loading screens.

        • ElectricMachman
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          18•1 year ago

          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…)

  • @[email protected]
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    No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:

    😜

    • @[email protected]
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      Oh hey, I remember that screen. I have seen it many times. Many, many times. Oh God, so many times.

      • shootwhatsmyname
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        22•1 year ago

        So, just to clarify, you’ve seen it many times?

        • @[email protected]
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          It needed many reinstalls! So yes, many times, indeed.

      • @[email protected]
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        Still more than you remember

    • guajojo
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      Another old school, it’s very similar

    • @[email protected]OP
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      This one is second not OpenSUSE is still the best for me XD

    • Pussista
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      Ironically, this one is better designed than their current one lmao.

    • astraeus
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    • Resol van Lemmy
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      6•1 year ago

      I was genuinely about to say how the openSUSE installer looks incredibly similar to the Windows XP one

      • @[email protected]
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        There you go, peasants.

        • Resol van Lemmy
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          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

          • @[email protected]
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            Isn’t that ReactOS? :P

            • Resol van Lemmy
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              I completely forgot that even existed. This reply is now a downvote farm.

  • @[email protected]
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    With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:

  • noughtnaut
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    Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      This is so damn needed

    • @[email protected]
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      Kinda like the C64 games that had load time games

  • @[email protected]
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    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

    • exu
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      6•1 year ago

      Doesn’t GRUB support LUKS2 nowadays? I know that wasn’t the case a year ago or so, but I didn’t see a notice on the Archwiki last time I checked.

      • lemmyreader
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        Not sure how up to date this is, but it claims LUKS2 is only partially supported by GRUB https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/fde.html

        LUKS2 is only partially supported by GRUB; specifically, only the PBKDF2 key derivation function is implemented, which is not the default KDF used with LUKS2, that being Argon2i (GRUB Bug 59409). LUKS encrypted partitions using Argon2i (as well as the other KDF) can not be decrypted. For that reason, this guide only recommends LUKS1 be used.

    • Björn Tantau
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      Luckily most installers support installing wherever you tell them to. So if you install from a live image you should be able to set it up the way you want. I’ll definitely try that as soon as a I do my next installation.

    • @[email protected]
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      You can fix this by manually placing the /boot partition outside of luks when you do your install. I did it and now my opensuse system boots in a reasonable time. Annoying to do but 100% worth it.

  • Possibly linux
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    To each there own

  • grimacefry
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