On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 11:22 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> I just finished running the graphic installer on 2020.10.31 and 2021.04.30 > ISOs. It would be an understatement to say the results were not good. > > 1) The documentation mentioned on the first screen is missing as noted > previously > > 2) The release notes button produces a "unable to display release notes" > dialog. > > I selected "whole disk install" and took all the defaults. After the > install completed I rebooted using the GUI installer. > > 3) The system reported "Non-system disk or disk error" with both releases. > > I am pleased to report that a default text install did properly configure > the nVIDIA driver in 2021.04.30. > > I don't know when the GUI installer stopped installing the bootloader. > While I could check 2017.10 and 2015.10, there's really no point. Git > should tell the tale for anyone interested. My concern is not who broke > it, but that it is being released broken. > > The real issue is that releases are not being tested for even basic > functionality. We really should be testing for device driver issues, but > first we need to get to first base. > > Someone coming to OI from Linux would quite naturally choose the GUI > installer. I shall leave the reader to ponder their likely reaction to > "Non-system disk or disk error". I suspect most would simply abandon OI > entirely. Not because they couldn't make it work, but because the > distribution image is so unprofessional as to be embarrassing. > > OI *could* make most, if not all, of the Linux distros I've tested look > bad. Sadly the current status is the opposite. The worst Linux distro > I've tested makes OI look bad. > > So the overarching question is this: What is the community going to do > about it? > I'll keep using OI until <insert some criteria I haven't decided on yet here>. Small reminder that not everyone has had your experience. Some of us have gotten OI up and running and can live with the *status quo* even if it's not our preferred state of affairs. Would I like to see things better? Sure. Do I have the time or desire to do the work to make that happen? No(t right now), I have other systems that do what I want and so the marginal benefit *to me* of personally fixing the outstanding OI problems I have is minimal (this is true of nearly every OS I run. For everything one of them does badly, another one excels at that thing.) You mentioned community testing in a previous email; I'd say that's what everyone who's running the rolling release is doing ... because rolling releases are raw alphas by definition. FWIW I often find myself in a similar position when using FreeBSD: somehow I keep encountering its less fun problems. But the community frequently reminds me that most FreeBSD users don't experience the same issues. > > Reg > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
