If we’re being honest every release without this status bar being the tail unfolding OR the tongue extending to catch a fly is a waste.
No, Ark Linux (not Arch) had Tetris in their installer, so we could play while we waited. It has been discontinued unfortunately.
Wow I’d never heard of anything like that before, that’s pretty dang cool.
I know some Minecraft mod packs used to have pong integrated in their loading screens.
Small history lesson for those interested: the reason we didn’t see much of this sort of thing is because Namco actually had it patented, up until late 2015. Originally, you could play Galaxian while you waited for Ridge Racer to load! (At the expense of everyone else being able to have little loading screen games…)
I don’t like that it doesn’t give you a live image by default. It’s kind of hard to find them on the website.
I think my ideal installer would be one that boots into a desktop and by default installs that and copies everything you’ve done there onto the installed system. Like “here you can start using your system right away, we’ll ask you a few questions and then do the pesky installation stuff for you in the background”.
Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.
This is so damn needed
Kinda like the C64 games that had load time games
Reminds of Windows 98 installation
Debian: boring installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Almalinux: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about 10 minutes
Opensuse: nice installer, bare-metal install completed in about an hour. WHYYYYYYYY?
It because zypper is incredibly slow. They’ve been slowly working on the features needed to make it faster but they haven’t come together yet. I would guess early 2025.
Really good! Reminds me a bit of Mandriva Linux installer’s look and feel. Yes, I am as old as rocks.
Much better
Help, why does this picture feel like it’s ever so slightly tilted?
I bet it’s something to do with the drop shadow. Seems like the center of mass is shifted, eh?
When I look at it as a thumbnail, it looks like the installation box is popping out of my phone. When I fulllscreen it, the illusion vanishes for me.
Yes, I guess it’s just an illusion, zoomed too before to check, but after zooming out, I still see it wrong lol
I didn’t see it until I read your comment
No, no, this is the peak OS installation menu:
😜
I was genuinely about to say how the openSUSE installer looks incredibly similar to the Windows XP one
There you go, peasants.
Everyone is nostalgic to XP so they decide to make part of a different operating system look very similar to it just for nostalgia sake
Isn’t that ReactOS? :P
I completely forgot that even existed. This reply is now a downvote farm.
Oh hey, I remember that screen. I have seen it many times. Many, many times. Oh God, so many times.
Still more than you remember
So, just to clarify, you’ve seen it many times?
It needed many reinstalls! So yes, many times, indeed.
Ironically, this one is better designed than their current one lmao.
Another old school, it’s very similar
This one is second not OpenSUSE is still the best for me XD
Just because of the loading bar? You’re easy to please 😁.
Not just loading bar it’s everything about the aesthetic in the menu, logo on the top, installation steps on the side and loading bar on the middle just enough to fill the screen while not being too crowded or overwhelming
And then there’s the installation options that look and behave exactly like a regularly themed Qt application (which it probably is). Wonderful!
Okay, I’m coming from Gentoo and Debian, cut me some slack, I’m easy to please regarding installers :-PNo shame in that, I also get the warm fuzzies when I see a nice installer.
Was just kidding 😁 Keep that feeling, it’s a great one ! I love to see other people enjoying such simple but powerful brain flooding dopamine ! That awwwwww moment is really enjoayble, for others and yourself !
Hope you will have fun with openSUSE ! I’m also thinking to switch from Debian to OpenSUSE for my daily drive. Debian as server is fantastic, but got some quirks running it with backports and testing.
Maybe a skill issue? Probably, but trying something different will give me the necessary boost to find out 😄
I mean, it is something surprisingly absent from most installers
You apparently haven’t tried Ubuntu in 20 years? Canonical has had a very clean Windows-ish experience forever, though even back in the day, Suse always had a pretty decent one as well.
Ubuntu is still just one series of distros
It is also a lie as the installer doesnt know any percentages.
But afaik Debian installer, Calamares, Fedora Anaconda and more all have loading bars
I also like that it installs the apps right after first boot in microos. That’s awesome. Unfortunately I like the image based system of fedora a tiny bit more.
I still prefer archinstall‘s TUI install script (I just wish that it would offer to install yay as well)
Yay is discontinued, no?
pamac update --aur --no-confirmIs it? 😮 it still works well for me, need to research in that case
Doesnt look like that, many translations but also normal maintenance
OpenSUSE also had a TUI installer IIRC, it’s YaST-adjacent.
Huh, I haven’t installed SUSE in at least 10 years and seeing the Gecko is giving me a bit of nostalgia. I may have to run an install and see what’s changed.
You could’ve shown a better screenshot I guess
There’s some decent screenshots here: https://opensuse-guide.org/installation.php
