I learned a few weeks ago about Calamares . A nice distro-independent graphical installer for linux. I think it would be really beneficial for people to avoid the "most difficult" part of getting NixOS on bare metal.
I haven't done any feasibility, just curious if people feel strongly for or against this.
jonringer
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Graphical installer topic also suggesting Calamares https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/21662.
FRidh
on 14 Oct 2020
haha, I just stumbled upon that thread. I saw the thread update with your post above :)
jonringer
on 14 Oct 2020
crazy how that was "only" 3 1/2 years ago, and there's been 80,000 new issues/PRs since then O.o
jonringer
on 14 Oct 2020
Would be OK to close it in favor of #21662?
AndersonTorres
on 14 Oct 2020
I think the two are related, but not the same.
The other is proposing a graphical installer in general, and I'm proposing one specifically.
Perhaps discourse would be a better forum, as there's likely to be a narrative there, and the discoverability should be better as well.
jonringer
on 14 Oct 2020
Related discussion on Discourse: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/user-friendly-nixos-distro/
lboklin
on 15 Oct 2020
This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/user-friendly-nixos-distro/1348/57
nixos-discourse
on 29 Oct 2020
This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-users-using-nixos-wrong/9973/3
nixos-discourse
on 12 Nov 2020
This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/cirnos-brainstorming-period/10056/5
nixos-discourse
on 16 Nov 2020
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