I really wish net installers were still popular. For a while, most distros offered a tiny install image, like a few hundred MB that contained just enough to boo

I really wish net installers were still popular. For a while, most distros offered a tiny install image, like a few hundred MB that contained just enough to bootstrap the installer to pull the real OS data from the internet (or other network source). Sometimes I only have small USB2.0 flash drives. I can't fit a full-fat installer on there, and even if I could, my network connection is much faster anyway. Hell, installers don't even do on-the-fly updates anymore. You install whatever stale packages are in your install media then go through the process of re-downloading and updating every package anyway. An offline installer makes obvious sense, but in this modern age, an online installer is superior in every way.