Re: [Proposal-Suggestion] for a better and more user friendly NetBSD installation experience

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> Subject: [Proposal-Suggestion] for a better and more user friendly NetBSD
>  installation experience

"user friendly" is *heavily* user-dependent.  One person's
user-friendly is another's user-hostile and yet another's obnoxiously
user-obsequious.  Without a specific and well-defined metric, "better"
is similarly subjective.

> I've noticed that NetBSD does not permit an easy manual partitioning
> at install time,

This disagrees with my experience.  I don't use the installer much on
any port, but with one exception I think it has always let me manually
partition the disk the way I want (that exception being the few cases
where I want overlapping partitions).

I've used Linux installers even less, but in the few cases where I've
seen them run they've been significantly less me-friendly (ie,
user-friendly to me) than the NetBSD installer.  I don't know whether
Void is one of the ones I've seen.

> and in general, it lacks of tools for disk management, like cfdisk,
> parted , garted or listing tools [like] lsblk.

It does?  I'm not much of a Linux admin and I'm not terribly familiar
with cfdisk or parted, and garted I don't think I've ever heard of.
But NetBSD has fdisk and disklabel (including disklabel -e), and there
are probably numerous tools that work better for their authors - I've
written one myself.  As for lsblk, I'm not familiar with it, but for
listing disk devices NetBSD does have the hw.disknames sysctl, though,
like a lot of NetBSD, it's pretty minimalist, providing mechanism
rather than policy.

> Another thing, ipv6 is very slow,

This too disagrees with my experience; I've been using IPv6 for decades
and I find it close enough to IPv4 in speed that I'd have to measure
carefully to detect a difference in comparable cases.

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