Graphical installer made more harm than good
Posted: 27. Feb 2026, 02:11
Despite that I installed SalixOS via graphical installer, I still had to tinker with the terminal and properly install all the components that went wrong. I thought graphical installer would make things as simple as a plug-in-and-play type of distros, but it didn't really give me much of a pleasant time.
After setting the space in GParted and going through the installation from a USB, I went to restart the PC, and- Oh, why am I staring at the GRUB bash screen?! Turns out that GRUB cannot find its configuration or the distro, despite it being installed and pointed out in the graphical installer. I went ahead to plug in the USB again to do the tinkering through the distro on my USB in terminal, I went to properly install the configurations (Took me a good 15 minutes to get it all done). After setting everything up and went to (FINALLY) boot up from my SSD, I was surprised that Salix didn't even register my username on it. Why did it even bother asking me for both username and password in the graphical installer then??? I went ahead into the terminal to set all of this up, but it already feels like I went through a text-mode installer, rather than what I expected from a graphical installer.
Now I also have to deal with GRUB menu booting up to ask me to choose the only distro that is installed on my computer, for some reason.
A lot of things went wrong, I thought the graphical installer would make everything error-proof, but I still had to go through as many errors as possible.
After setting the space in GParted and going through the installation from a USB, I went to restart the PC, and- Oh, why am I staring at the GRUB bash screen?! Turns out that GRUB cannot find its configuration or the distro, despite it being installed and pointed out in the graphical installer. I went ahead to plug in the USB again to do the tinkering through the distro on my USB in terminal, I went to properly install the configurations (Took me a good 15 minutes to get it all done). After setting everything up and went to (FINALLY) boot up from my SSD, I was surprised that Salix didn't even register my username on it. Why did it even bother asking me for both username and password in the graphical installer then??? I went ahead into the terminal to set all of this up, but it already feels like I went through a text-mode installer, rather than what I expected from a graphical installer.
Now I also have to deal with GRUB menu booting up to ask me to choose the only distro that is installed on my computer, for some reason.
A lot of things went wrong, I thought the graphical installer would make everything error-proof, but I still had to go through as many errors as possible.