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Written by chesheer on 2025-01-08 at 12:12

Had to install Windows 10 yesterday and in the process was amazed how bad big corporations are in basic things.

So, the installer itself pretty much didn't change since Windows 95. And in *nix world it often is a good thing, it means that there were some right things done back in the days: Slackware (Pat made the installer and saw it was good), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.

But no, sir, that's not the case here. Windows installer sucked back in '90s and it sucks some thirty years later.

There's no single moment during Windows 10 installation when you can "Go back". All changes apply immediately. It's simply abysmal.

Formatting the disk, choosing right partition for installation is terrifying:

you get long list of all disks and partitions without ANY directions as to what's where. No disk label, no disk name, size, nothing. Just Disk 0 Partition 1, Disk 1 Partition 2, etc.

You hit "Delete partition" and installer deletes it instantly, without any warning.

I can't imagine easier way to bork your whole system and data if you have several disks installed.

Any random Linux distro now have figured out how to do it right. It can actually partition the disk in the right way automatically.

But Microsoft can't figure out this advanced technology yet.

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Written by Chris1776 on 2025-01-08 at 12:41

@chesheer The installer sucks, but for the last 30 years it had a consistent desktop and backwards compatible API. Imho the "year of the desktop" was like 2010(?), when we had KDE 3 and Gnome 2. From then it went downwards in a steep spiral, wether you're in the X or Wayland camp.

Linux installers are also not without issues: https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/2343

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