Thursday, May 23, 2019

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

Hi,

Patrick Harper wrote on Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:50:54PM +0100:

> I think OpenBSD could be made easier to set up for GUI applications
> if some configuration that is currently done in files could be moved
> to the install program.

I very strongly oppose the idea.

> These questions (or similar) could be shown

Absolutely not. The installer should ask as few questions as possible,
ideally none whatsoever. *That* is a way to simplify setup.

The topics you mention have nothing to do with installation.
They are merely low-importance user configuration that can be done
at any time if desired. But almost no user will ever have to consider
any of those; i certainly didn't, ever, and i have been using many
OpenBSD computers for almost two decades now, including with a wide
variety of GUI applications.

Yours,
Ingo

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