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No automatic fallback to text-based installer #2998

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andrewdavidwong opened this Issue Aug 9, 2017 · 1 comment

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andrewdavidwong commented Aug 9, 2017

[Branched from #2988.]

@rootkovska, beginning in #2988 (comment):

Also, as suggested by a user [1], I think it would make a lot of sense to detect that X failed during installation and display a message along the lines of: "Sorry, you're out of luck with this hardware, go try a different one". This is in order to discourage users from spending hours trying to complete the installation via the text-based installer, a process in most cases leading nowhere.
[1] https://twitter.com/mrphs/status/894826562855501824

In any case, I think we should change the installer to stop and print a message whenever X failed to run. Perhpas offer some "I really know what I do and I won't complain if things go wrong" button to proceed in text mode, although I'd rather want we don't do that.

@marmarek:

Yes, maybe a command line option to enable text mode installer. But do not fallback to it automatically.

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