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adamtulinius on Aug 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mobile NixOS: The Present and the Future

In my opinion that would only be useful to help with creating partitions and file systems. The rest of the install process is basically creating your system configuration (and there's a helper tool for that), and a single command to perform the install.

What do you think a graphical installer should do for the user?

k__ on Aug 24, 2019 [–]

I think maybe a wizard would help?

Like, you choose the type of the PC and then it takes you through some steps to get the right config and packages going.

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