Only handle the simple cases. When they don't tell you exactly what they are going to do, well then they are useless because you can't trust them. Gonna touch the gpt ? Gonna create a hybrid mbr? Gonna force me to use CSM? Gonna *touch* any other partition than what I tell you??? hard pass.
I actually miss the older style gui installers where you picked all your options and which packages you wanted to install first, then let 'er rip. I guess asking too many questions up front was seen as intimidating to newbies.
Manual installation methods are still around for various distributions. If you want to use them, and for some weird hardware combinations it is probably necessary, they are still available. But it's generally nice to be able to click-click-click your way through a simple install on a straightforward system, too.
GUI installers (Score:-1)
Only handle the simple cases.
When they don't tell you exactly what they are going to do, well then they are useless because you can't trust them.
Gonna touch the gpt ? Gonna create a hybrid mbr? Gonna force me to use CSM? Gonna *touch* any other partition than what I tell you???
hard pass.
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
I actually miss the older style gui installers where you picked all your options and which packages you wanted to install first, then let 'er rip. I guess asking too many questions up front was seen as intimidating to newbies.
Re:GUI installers (Score:3)
Manual installation methods are still around for various distributions. If you want to use them, and for some weird hardware combinations it is probably necessary, they are still available. But it's generally nice to be able to click-click-click your way through a simple install on a straightforward system, too.