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bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:09:33 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net> skribis:
> According to my communications on IRC i see that guix doesnt want to
> have an offline installation, Which mean it need internet connection
> available at the installation process.
More specifically, we cannot guarantee that an off-line installation
would work because it depends on the software and services you’ll
choose.
> This is fine except when user having either static-ip or using VM
> which doesnt give readable network interface to the distro inside it
> (falling into same category of static-ip).
>
> solving/giving:
>
> - Adding static IP and so as manually installing is not well
> documented and need knowledge and skills (very faraway to be handled
> by new users)check #47630
Right, this one’s already filed.
> - Easiness of modifying things e.g instead of using tens of commands
> it will be replaced with couple of clicks and for surely less typing
> (compare gparted vs parted steps or network-manager vs ip commands and
> so on). You can checkout many distros whos giving this opportunity
> like nixos, trisquel/triskel, mint...etc
Did you try the graphical installation?
https://guix.gnu.org/en/videos/system-graphical-installer/
It’s key strokes rather than clicks, but I think it addresses most of
the issues you describe.
> - Give trial usage of the distro for the user before installing it
Did you try the live VM image?
https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/
I’m closing because I don’t see anything actionable. Please file issues
focused on specific problems.
Thanks,
Ludo’.