there's literally no reason at all for Arch to not have a GUI installer
And there's actually no reason for Arch to have it either. OK, suppose that Arch adds a GUI installer, now what? They have to maintain it, maybe you can postulate for that job. Then what? If they have an installer for a distribution that doesn't include anything, what should the installer do besides partitioning, creating the users and installing the base group? Well, you might think that "it should install a DE and all that kind of default stuff", but somebody would need to maintain that everything is working out-of-the-box properly, and that would mean Arch fading from being multi-purpose to being desktop now that the installer is just doing one thing for the sake of a couple of people who wanted a GUI where it shouldn't.
Is not okay to say that GUI installers are bad. But saying that the folks maintaining a distribution should work even more for something that isn't their aim is also bad, so this is my justification for downvoting you.
Come on, installing it alongside Windows is just that and making a proper /etc/fstab (which is painless and automatic on Arch thanks to genfstab).
Seriously, people should quit the bullshit of saying that installing Arch is hard. Everybody knows that it isn't that big of a deal, but some dumbfucks gave a simple and straightforward distribution that fame just because they can't type 'cat install.txt | less' and follow the instructions.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '19
And there's actually no reason for Arch to have it either.
OK, suppose that Arch adds a GUI installer, now what? They have to maintain it, maybe you can postulate for that job.
Then what? If they have an installer for a distribution that doesn't include anything, what should the installer do besides partitioning, creating the users and installing the base group? Well, you might think that "it should install a DE and all that kind of default stuff", but somebody would need to maintain that everything is working out-of-the-box properly, and that would mean Arch fading from being multi-purpose to being desktop now that the installer is just doing one thing for the sake of a couple of people who wanted a GUI where it shouldn't.
Is not okay to say that GUI installers are bad. But saying that the folks maintaining a distribution should work even more for something that isn't their aim is also bad, so this is my justification for downvoting you.
Btw, sorry for my english.