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Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer (eerielinux.wordpress.com)
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[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is a great, thoughtful review of the installer

[–] vins@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

This article is quite on spot. I think a good chunk of users approaching NetBSD is driven away by an unintuitive, over-engineered, and sometimes buggy installer. The partitioning UI expects a degree of understanding which many users lack nowadays. And that is a shame. Poor CGD/LVM integration and lacking ZFS support make it not very useful for non-standard configurations (user has to resolve to CLI).