Hoping for More Control in Agama Installer in Future Leap 16.1

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Hi openSUSE team,

Leap 15.6 to 16.0 was a huge jump. I think a lot of us still remember some troubles we met 5 months ago during installagion. It’d be awesome if 16.1 can be more flexible in the Agama installer.

Below are what I hope for future Leap 16.1:

1. Partition (Btrfs) Options in the Installer

  • Allow enabling partition compression right from installation (so we don’t have to reconfigure and re-compress everything after install).

  • Give us control over how system directories are split into subvolumes, not just stick to the defaults.

  • Other Btrfs settings (like SSD mode, auto-defrag, etc.) should be configurable too.

2. Built-in Partitioning Tool

  • Installer should have a full-featured partitioner so we can manually edit disks during install. Having to exit and use other tools is a pain.

3. Display Server and Desktop Choices

  • Would be great if we always able to choose between Wayland/X11, KDE or other desktops in the installer.

and so on…

Honestly, I really miss the customizability and features of the old YaST installer. Since openSUSE has decided to move to Agama, hope it’ll eventually become just as powerful.

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed and all those users providing valuable feedback!

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Moving to Open Chat as not a request for technical assistance.

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Just to clarify that what you actually choose at install time is the desktop environment (Plasma, GNOME, XFCE, MATE, …). Whether that desktop runs on Wayland, X11, or both is a property of the desktop and the distro’s integration, not a separate desktop choice.

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Consider discussing your ideas at https://github.com/agama-project/agama/discussions

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