• Registered: 2011-10-13
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Topic: Suggestions

Hey,

a few suggestions for the OS,

1) A graphical installation
2) An easier way to add/remove programs, maybe something similar to the Ubuntu Software Centre

I know the OS is designed to be minimal, but maybe in order to keep up with where the other Linux O/S's are going, you should add abit more functionality, maybe you would pull more users in that way?

$bioshox.

Last edited by Bioshox (2011-10-13 11:02:05)

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Re: Suggestions

Bot suggestions are leading to one question (speaking for myself, as usual!) - why should we need that?
(Nevertheless, your opinion is highly appreciated Bioshox.)

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Re: Suggestions

Hi Bioshox!

Wasn't there a choice to use a graphical install when you installed the system? I did install my from such. It looked like a regular Debian install, except with more #!-like colours.

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  • From: Dusk Till Dawn
  • Registered: 2009-07-02
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Re: Suggestions

Yes, there is a graphical installer, as well as the curses one. And the Synaptic Package Manager comes quite close to a software manager. Anyway, most users know what they want, so they can use apt, aptitude or synaptic to install the required software, and (after installing the xapian module - I don't know if this is default in #!), Synaptic can search through the descriptions.

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Re: Suggestions

also, do we want to pull in any more users than we already do? have you seen the amount of posts in the Introductions-forum lately? this is not a distro trying to win a popularity-contest or anything; let Ubuntu go for that if they want. i agree Synaptic is great if you want a GUI for installing/uninstalling software.
and what is this talk of a graphical installer... when you can see it with your eyes, it is graphical. text is graphical too. i think curses-interfaces are the best compromise between CLI and GUI.

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Re: Suggestions

^ right, we don't have the Ubuntu phenomenon that more users leave than arrive big_smile

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Re: Suggestions

For me, #! has been the roach motel of distros - I checked in, but couldn't check out.

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Re: Suggestions

^ lol.

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