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People are intimidated by CLIs. Simple as that

• nix23 5y ago
  Textinstallers NOT CLI's https://i.stack.imgur.com/8OQdV.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/8OQdV.png Intimated about text-installers but using something like Guix? Sound like a strange mindset.
  • swiley 5y ago
    I think most people would call a dialog driven installer running in a tty a GUI installer. They just don't want to be dumped into bash and told to set up GRUB on their own. Alpine's installer is the best IMO: you get a GUI style wizard but it's contained in a set of shell scripts (setup-*) so if you need it again you can run it yourself.
    • medstrom 5y ago
      OpenBSD is another goodie. Answer a number of prompts and then it installs and configs stuff in one go (no more prompts midway through or afterwards). Plus you can "preload" your answers by referring to a file, good if you admin many machines.