Custom Installer

[lleyton]

Anaconda, Fedora's installer, isn't great UX wise. There's an opportunity for us to significantly improve the installation experience (and maybe even the speed too) through our own installer.

[korewaChino]

This would be pretty hard to do. Anaconda does everything from boot configs to package setup.

We can probably just make a new installer frontend based on the Anaconda API, but the API is still not stable.

[lleyton]

Hmmm, fair point. I think it might be worth it to use Anaconda's API with our own frontend, even if it's unstable.

[korewaChino]

Recently, Anaconda has added a Web UI functionality, so we can probably look into how they work with Cockpit and replicate the API for ourselves.

[nothingneko]

We have a couple different designs, here's a sampling

Lains' design

Jaiden's designs

[lleyton]

Honestly, I feel like picking this up, need a new tau project to work on :p

I'm still undecided if I want to use anaconda or not as a backend

[nothingneko]

Anaconda is incredibly customizable, but you'd have to use python. What I'm thinking we can do is a dual backend system. On tauOS we manually deploy the OSTree to the drive. On Ultramarine we can use distinst

[lleyton]

I see no reason why we couldn't use distinst for this as well, since it takes a squashfs for deployment in which we could stage an OSTree deployment on.

[nothingneko]

Sounds good to me

[korewaChino]

UPDATE: Please see https://github.com/FyraLabs/readymade