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

amd.mobile at virgilio.it amd.mobile at virgilio.it
Sat Jul 5 16:09:06 CEST 2025


Hi
I tried again the offline installer.

It is OK for a not graphical base installation, but a deeper management, as EndeavourOS currently offers (or as ArcoLinux offered)  would permit to offer one and only iso , and I think it would be the best choice

2025-07-05T03:31:28Z Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com>:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 05:46:27PM +0000, a8 wrote:
>> 
>> this was suggested in irc
>> 
>> if a singular artix iso supported persistence,
> 
> Honestly, I don't know what that means.
> 
> As far as I am concern, the real problem here is that Calemere is not a
> dependable platform.
> 
> I've looks at over a 100 installations already, probably a lot more,
> and the damn thing just fails to work without seeming reason ... like
> all the time.  And it is not an Artix controlled program. 
> 
> 
>> then that one iso could be updated and modifyed to the users desired init, de, and other packages.
> 
> A base install does just that... fwiw.  I have had no trouble with
> installing DMs with pacman.
> 
> Even with OpenSUSE and YAST, you get a serious of choices, 4 of them the
> last I looked of full on gnone, fullon kde, limited X graphics or
> terminal.
> 
> And even with Yast, you just into real trouble with creating custom
> partions.  I rarely see it work well with Calemeres.  WHen I am in a
> rush I will just mount the disks off the live disk and create the
> partitions with cfdisk and the appopriate mkfs and then reboot and let
> the system identify the partition scheme and cross my fingers and hope
> it takes.
> 
> That requires a little planning before you install. 
> 
> I stil have a knoplix disk somewhere.
> 
>> 
>> Presumably, then user installs could be just as the user desired.
>> 
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