Not liking the calamares installer - Am I the only one?

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Not liking the calamares installer - Am I the only one?

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Some background: I've pretty much settled on LM 19 for my daily driver so my distro-hopping days are pretty much over. I have 3 computers (1 desktop, 1 laptop, and 1 i3-based tablet) and I have LM 19 installed on all of them. It's also installed on my lovely wife's laptop top as well.

But, I've always had a soft spot for Debian. I know it's crazy, but Debian has always just "felt better" with softer edges and better response, that kind of very subjective "feeling." It's for this reason I downloaded Cindy and installed it on a spare HDD.

Now that the background is out of the way, my thoughts about calamares: In short, though it seemed to do it's job well it is lacking something huge; feedback during the installation. Three times the installer seemed to just stall, at about 14% complete, 62% complete, and again at about 93% complete. The installer was a lot like that duck on the pond - not much visible above the surface but paddling like mad just under the waterline where one can't see it.

If I hadn't had system monitor running and been able to see that the CPU was not just sitting at idle, I would have given in to my urge to terminate the install and start over with the Mint installer.

Yeah, so not liking the calamares installer very much. Any other opinions?
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Re: Not liking the calamares installer - Am I the only one?

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you just gave me a good idea for future installs,

I am going to invoke System Monitor on all installs in future....

I am really peeved at the Devs not giving us feedback during an install.

the screen goes black and nothing............................................... a quick flash of something went by
.................................... blackness abounds again.........................................................
oh, it is green now..............................................................................

and finally, it says " remove media and hit <enter>"

and right here, is where it all goes wrong.... I can't tell you how many times, I have pulled the media out "right now, and not waited until it actually means " Okay, I am done, please pull media".... pull it too early, and you have to start all over again.
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