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

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Sat Jul 5 05:38:02 CEST 2025


On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 12:56:48AM +0200, aguador wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> I have not done a lot of installations with Calamares, but it has
> general acceptance and seems to work for most people.

I would wage real money that if we take 100 random recent model
computers and laptops off the street that Calamares will fail about 40%
of the time.

I've done this experiment in real time.  Artix is 8 years old now.  
Whenever we do an installfest I spend a lot of my time trying to get 
around Calamares errors.

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