• The Zen Cow Says Mu@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • mholiv@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • barbara@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Petter1@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I still prefer archinstall‘s TUI install script (I just wish that it would offer to install yay as well)

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    Yeah it’s alright. I’ve been using Tumbleweed on my Desktop PC for the last few months and I gotta say it’s mid. They do hard drive unlocking in Grub instead of in the initfs which means that only LUKS 1 and with that only the not-so-secure PDKDF is supported, instead of argon2id which is the modern KDF you want to use. This is a small and annoying oversight in the distros security which is why I will not be using it in the future

    • mholiv@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You can fix this by manually placing the /boot partition outside of luks when you do your install. I did it and now my opensuse system boots in a reasonable time. Annoying to do but 100% worth it.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Doesn’t GRUB support LUKS2 nowadays? I know that wasn’t the case a year ago or so, but I didn’t see a notice on the Archwiki last time I checked.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Not sure how up to date this is, but it claims LUKS2 is only partially supported by GRUB https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/fde.html

        LUKS2 is only partially supported by GRUB; specifically, only the PBKDF2 key derivation function is implemented, which is not the default KDF used with LUKS2, that being Argon2i (GRUB Bug 59409). LUKS encrypted partitions using Argon2i (as well as the other KDF) can not be decrypted. For that reason, this guide only recommends LUKS1 be used.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, you only have to look at these once. Absolutely no point except eye-candy for a fleeting moment.
      .I don’t even care for graphical boots. Give me all the boot messages scrolling by.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    This might just be me but I hate those bars. It better come with some sort of text output so I can see what’s actually going on.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    3 months ago

    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”.

  • falx@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Really good! Reminds me a bit of Mandriva Linux installer’s look and feel. Yes, I am as old as rocks.