This article is quite on spot. I think a good chunk of users approaching NetBSD is driven away by an unintuitive, over-engineered, and sometimes buggy installer.
The partitioning UI expects a degree of understanding which many users lack nowadays. And that is a shame.
Poor CGD/LVM integration and lacking ZFS support make it not very useful for non-standard configurations (user has to resolve to CLI).
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M33@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
This is a great, thoughtful review of the installer
vins@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
This article is quite on spot. I think a good chunk of users approaching NetBSD is driven away by an unintuitive, over-engineered, and sometimes buggy installer. The partitioning UI expects a degree of understanding which many users lack nowadays. And that is a shame. Poor CGD/LVM integration and lacking ZFS support make it not very useful for non-standard configurations (user has to resolve to CLI).