On 2025/06/02 21:39, Paul Lalonde wrote:
It's not really possible to read enough to make a smooth install "just
work" without significant hand-holding in the early stage. Section 4
of the fqa provides much of this, but it's far down the page, and many
readers won't get there.
Honestly? Even 3rd Edition had a bootable, runnable CD. In fact, it was
a lot more difficult to install Xenix, SCO Unix and even Windows before
the clever engineer at QNX got the idea of using the OS to install
itself. The problem lies elsewhere and I think the critical thorn is
familiarity. The easier one makes the installation, the less the user
will be motivated to discover the differences that make an OS superior
to another.
It's in these threads that I first heard comments about how Linux was
being perverted to be like Windows 95 and descendants. Can you imagine
what it would be like to support Plan 9 if it became like Linux? What is
there to gain from repeating that bit of history?
Lucio.
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