Interesting! The idea occurred to me for two reasons: - There were already a lot of parallel image
Interesting! The idea occurred to me for two reasons:
- There were already a lot of parallel images, then when I mentioned steam-devices y'all went from it to udev rules to all udev rules to codecs to app bundles to a modular repo system, and the potential image count/complexity ballooned. A unified installer seemed like a great way to manage that complexity in the user space. If you offer base, Silverblue, Kinoite, Vauxite, and two or three more options, that last one dramatically cuts the chance that someone will ever choose any of them over another distro. Big hazard in marketing and the psychology of decision making in general. One installer for all of them with no-selection defaults alleviates it
- Regardless of necessity, it's a relatively "simple" type of feature which at least Windows if not Mac users expect, and it's a lot less imposing as a first step than working from the command line. I would hope that it somewhat bridges the gap of what users somewhat arbitrarily think of as polished and indicative of a consumer-ready operating system due to familiarity and availability heuristics
- There were already a lot of parallel images, then when I mentioned steam-devices y'all went from it to udev rules to all udev rules to codecs to app bundles to a modular repo system, and the potential image count/complexity ballooned. A unified installer seemed like a great way to manage that complexity in the user space. If you offer base, Silverblue, Kinoite, Vauxite, and two or three more options, that last one dramatically cuts the chance that someone will ever choose any of them over another distro. Big hazard in marketing and the psychology of decision making in general. One installer for all of them with no-selection defaults alleviates it
- Regardless of necessity, it's a relatively "simple" type of feature which at least Windows if not Mac users expect, and it's a lot less imposing as a first step than working from the command line. I would hope that it somewhat bridges the gap of what users somewhat arbitrarily think of as polished and indicative of a consumer-ready operating system due to familiarity and availability heuristics
