if memory serves renasas was always a barrel of monkeys
oh that was fun. Install firefox, ephiphany reinstalls itself - i figure its due to libreoffice, and... I remove ibreoffice-common and... no dice. I get fed up and remove libreoffice-* ...
If I had my way, UI designers that put in spinners or infinite/repeating progress bars would be taken out and blindfolded, then given a countdown from ten to zero which would repeat before they were eventually shot on the seventh or eighth "...3"
@Bob This is why I prefer something like "task 3 of 8 completed", or the thing that (iirc) windows installer does where there's a list of tasks and checkmarks appear next to the ones that have been completed.
@Bob because when it's just "busy", I can't tell if it's crashed or something. If I see progress from "3 of 8" to "4 of 8", at least I know something is happening
@Bob that's simple, make downloading a single step, and have different steps for processing or checking hashes or whatever else that you need to do other than download files
What I'm saying is that it reassures the user if progress of some sort (even if slow) is visible, as compared to "doing stuff" being shown for hours. And this is especially true for stuff that takes a long time, such as OS installs.
If I had my way, UI designers that put in spinners or infinite/repeating progress bars would be taken out and blindfolded, then given a countdown from ten to zero which would repeat before they were eventually shot on the seventh or eighth "...3"
I think you actually can get a bit more info via some GPO but default is to hide it because it gets technical fast and the goal is for it to be really quick.
