Oh bullshit.

Starting to be amazed here at all the supposedly tech-savvy people who seem to need an installer app to hold their hands through the process.

Well 7-8 months ago I would have said the same thing, i've got a LOT to learn still but i'm so far ahead of where I was this time last year that the small C scripts (under say 1500 lines or so) i'm pretty comfortable with now.

The notes script is a good base if you don't do a lot of C, everything's pretty much set up for a simple password manager to work with that gui.
I think i'll try my hand at a prototype, maybe post it in the DIY section and folks can chime in if they want with suggestions/code.

EDIT: Oh yay, moar docs to read, who doesn't love poring over some good docs? Tonight's bedtime reading: libsodium.

That would be nifty to make a right-click file-manager extension.

^^^You just made my whole day! I will definitely be checking out your note app. One of the main reasons I post so many things in this forum section is that I hope it will make other folks think about making new things.

I don't like bloat either, I would argue that most of my experiments are anti-bloat in nature from the get-go.

But we are talking about normies here when you think about distributing your software, and as @rations already said, normies have some issues with things and are not prone to be CLI-savvy, GUI's is what they want. Gparted works fine in limited use and folks can understand it.

I like a 10 minute install. I like knowing exactly what i'm getting.

In the end it sounds like you're making an argument that Refracta-Installer needs a better GUI? While at the same time eschewing GUI's in general and speaking of your preference for CLI apps, it's confusing me.

I need to make a video showing the basics of a simple install using Refracta-Installer, my gawd it's so simple I just don't see how it could be confusing unless folks are just asking it to do all the things, which admittedly I have not tested them all, I just know my way works.

What would make RI better? A more conventional UI rather than yad dialogs? What is it that people have a hard time with?

Fsmithred's a pretty laid back guy, he might take some suggestions well when he has time, keep in mind he's busy as hell like all the devs.

I'd be willing to at least try and mock up an updated GUI for it, maybe we need a fork of it for the less tech-savvy that explains things more and simplifies some things.

2012 actually, don't hate, how many SSD's last 14 years?

Not a matter of intelligence zappy, just common sense.

Lol and even if someone got my banking info, wouldn't do much good, I don't have squat in the bank and I dumped credit 17 years ago, so my credit rating is like negative -0

Tempest in a teapot. As with most "security" risks i've seen lately, only applies to a multi-user system, and it assumes that if you go to the bathroom in a coffeeshop whilst online, that that coffeeshop is full of hackers who are just waiting for you to leave your machine unattended (and not locked) so they can rush over there and start looking through your files. Having to type a password to view your own files in another partition on your own machine of which you have sole access to, is retarded. Editing polkit fixes that nonsense.

If I had a dollar for every stupid thing that was done in the name of "security" i'd be rich. A lot of it is FUD, and frequently used these days as excuses for lack of quality code by second-rate coders (It's not a bug, it's a feature that we removed functionality, it's for your own good).

If someone were to somehow break in to my machine, you would not find:
1. Porn
2. Personal homemade porn (I have a sneaking suspicion that this is why some people are paranoid about security).
3. Passwords
4. My name, SSN, DOB, or any other personal info such as banking info

You could wipe the entire drive and I wouldn't lose squat. Everything I have that's important is permanently air-gapped. I don't use mail-clients, if I did I would have literally woke up this morning to a virus e-mail on my damned machine, instead it's on my mail providers server, and got promptly deleted and reported.

According to what i'm looking at right now, it was actually you that made comment #69.

Anyhoo, about to go through these two and a couple more apps, and compile new versions for Excalibur using the newer libraries.

Yeah I just checked, 147 mb on my machine, basically the QT kitchen sink and all the dishes. Yikes.

For those who are trying it, please let me know of any issues or suggestions, i've still got it loaded up in the build partition and will be testing over the next few days, so it's simple right now for me to fix and roll up a new iso.

Known issues:

1. Takes longer to boot than comparable daedalus systems, right after "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" it hangs for a bit, it's doing some thing back there, I think my ancient machine is part of the problem, seems to stick thinking about some radeon firmware.

2. As per the usual for Mate for years now, it does spam ~/.xsession-errors a fair bit, tons of reports about it, i'll probably be making another one. It never becomes an issue unless you never shutdown/reboot/logout your machine as that file is replaced with a new one on login.