Installation • So the live distro's Calamares installer doesn't setup up everything? And should be… avoided?

I figured because I wanted a straightforward desktop setup, I'd want to just use the KDE live ISO to see if I liked what I saw, and then install from there using its Calamares installer. But simple stuff like network time sync isn't even setup by this installer,(greyed out in KDE's settings app, and not setup/installed when I checked with the terminal). I'm told the normal installer optionally does that, but it isn't great to have to waste my time like this on stuff no desktop user would reasonably want to be without.

Anyway, network time sync is just one of a bunch of things that were not setup by default, with no option to do so at installation, and no simple way to just turn it on later. When I asked why the experience was so annoying in a couple places online, I was told it was my fault for using the live distro's Calamares installer Well, what is the point of offering a nice easy and simple installer like that, if it leaves so many expected (by the average desktop user) services for the user to install and setup themselves? That would seem to me to defeat the purpose of the simpler and friendlier live version's installer.

It all makes me rather sad, as I was keen on Debian as a desktop OS, and now I'm… far less keen. And it didn't have to be this way.

Statistics: Posted by Wizardling — 2026-01-02 10:55

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