[artix-general] Things that push me away from Artix [Feaures/Improvements requests]

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Wed Jul 2 23:42:42 CEST 2025


On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 11:34:39PM +0300, Christos Nouskas wrote:
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> Andrea-Mobile <amd.mobile at virgilio.it> wrote:
> > - ISO management : I'm really agaist multiple distros with Artix's
> > choices. EndeavourOS offers a great example about ho things should be
> > done in my opinion : a only one Calamares ISO , where you can choose
> > everything , the desktop , the display servers , the init system ,
> > the repos enabled (and now that xlibre is on the road, also the
> > xserver implementation , if possible). This approach would give 100%
> > full control to the user, peritting him to easy perform an
> > installation as minimal as he want
> 
> This is the most interesting point made, has been in our to-do list for
> years, and we should invest our time and efforts to finally implement
> it.
> 
Can you clarify what this means exactly?

FWIW - the last Calamares installation I did I was lucky to get past the
base install.  Then it failed altogther and I just installed everything
manually from there with pacman.

It asked to reboot and when it did, it didn't pick up where it left off
and I was left with a plain terminal.  I was OK with that but a newbie
would be exasperated.

It was not the first time I have had trouble with Calamares.  I'd say it
fails about 40% of the times I've seen it used in the wild... aside the
Luks BTRF troubles.


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