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[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

That's still CLI based, while Calamares is graphical, no?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I found archinstall to be very simple to follow, even though the whole thing is shown through the CLI, its basically just one page where you setup everything like partitions, boot, etc. Was a lot easier than I expected with the way everyone talks about it

[–] Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 7 months ago

My only difficulty with it was that I have too many disks and partitions and I didn't want to yeet the wrong one by mistake

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it TUI? That's almost GUI in my opinion.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yea, it is a very simple CLI based TUI. And I prefer this over GUI in this case, to be honest.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Archinstall is TUI, it's barely any more complicated than Calamares and gives pretty sane defaults and even the option to install DEs.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but do we call it archinstallOS, after installation?

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't get your point. Should we call EndevourOS Arch as well by your logic?

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yes 🌚 but don’t take me serious 😂