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Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does. (peertube.wtf)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Even then those who have to installers don't really have a good experience with distros of wide market share (narrowing to Linux distros only), especially with whatever fresh hell Calamares is. (It doesn't even support LVM or just installation with specified mounts points if you already set up your partition layout!)
Seriously, I've had better experience with the installer Ubuntu Server uses.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It does "support" LVM, but with a wacky/hacky workaround and that's a real shame !

    Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur... That's not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur... That's not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!

    It's a shitshow. Looking at their repo's issues list has lots of noise, but the worst of them is that the LVM issue has been open for over a year now. Sure, open source, anyone's free to work on it by why would distros use such a feature incomplete installer?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Using LVM is advanced. No nontechnical user should consider.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't think that's true. Administration tools could build on top of it, like snapshotting, which even if it does not work the best that way, it will work. and that can just run in the background, automatically, just like it does with snapper on btrfs now on some systems.

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