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Agreed. And FreeBSD's installer has been "next, next, next" as you say, since the 90s.

Our receptionist installed it herself on both her work and home computers in 1997. Next, next, next, done.



Arch used to have an installer like that, but they dumped it in favor of the current boot-into-heavily-customized-live-environment-that's-nothing-like-the-default-installation-and-install-pseudo-manually-by-running-these-shell-scripts-in-the-proper-order-and-hopefully-you-memorized-the-handbook “installer”. I can't prove it, but I suspect they did that sheerly out of elitism, to keep the newbs out.




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