Calamares - Oh Dear!

General system Installation
#1

Well, I had some more fun today with your calameres installer on my Intel NUC5CPYH with 240G SSD and 4G RAM.

I have been playing with i3 (and spectrwm which was a nightmare) recently and I thought I would try your endeavouros version, despite the problems I had with your installer a week or so ago. I downloaded a new copy of your installer, dd’d it onto a USB stick and away I went.

I probably had to restart about 5 or 6 times. The one obvious reason was that calamares didn’t like to do the partitioning. Other lockups occurred at different times. I eventually partitioned the drive myself and somehow it managed to complete an online installation of i3. I played with that and didn’t really like it (volume icon wasn’t doing anything at all). I did attempt to change some of your keybindings but I basically decided to reinstall a plain xfce. It seemed to go OK though the progress bar was stuck at zero. Eventually the terminal seemed to indicate that the installation was over so I came out of calamares and restarted and was surprised to find myself in vanilla xfce. Except that nothing seemed to work properly, so there was obviously a lot missing.

I’m sorry to say your version of Calamares is very buggy. I had a manual arch install of Openbox up and running within an hour complete with most of my configurations, so my computer is fine.

Am I really the only person who can’t get your calamares to work?

#2

No, you are not the only person, it happens that there is unsupported hardware and many times these problems of non-compatibility happen.

Regarding Calamares, it is already known that it has its problems, it is used in many Linux distributions, there are hardware/people who have problems and there are those who do not.

It is a balance of computing nature :grinning:

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#3

I’m sure you are right. Although, I would have thought that an Intel NUC5 with integrated graphics would be pretty much supported. I never have any trouble with manual Arch installation, nor with Zen and Anarchy. It’s the Calameres that’s thr problem, obviously. Anyway, it’s only my secondary linux computer that I use for fun installations.

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#4

Perhaps you’ve missed the answer I gave a couple of days ago but here it is again:

And I also aswered you in your original post:

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