No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:

😜

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

Just because of the loading bar? You're easy to please 😁.

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

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

If we’re being honest every release without this status bar being the tail unfolding OR the tongue extending to catch a fly is a waste.

You could've shown a better screenshot I guess

With Gentoo, you can choose any live-iso, open a terminal and start installing. (:

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.

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

To each there own

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.

I think people here are don't know and understand how customizable is opensuse's installer.

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?

I don't like that it doesn't give you a live image by default. It's kind of hard to find them on the website.

I think my ideal installer would be one that boots into a desktop and by default installs that and copies everything you've done there onto the installed system. Like "here you can start using your system right away, we'll ask you a few questions and then do the pesky installation stuff for you in the background".

Huh, I haven't installed SUSE in at least 10 years and seeing the Gecko is giving me a bit of nostalgia. I may have to run an install and see what's changed.

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