Boone777 wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:58 am
Doted or blured lines in the installer. ...it feels awkward, undefined separation between different disks and partitions.
The dropdown menu for selecting root partition blends with the rest it looks like it is already part of the board. ...
I completely agree. I think it makes the MX-21 installer (mx-installer 21.10.09) drive/partition table look absolutely awful (I'm being generous). The installer looked much, much better before those weird lines appeared.
MX-19 had a
MUCH better looking installer in v21.7.02mx19, and that version does NOT show the Live USB Flash Drive as another drive, which is the way it should be in my opinion (key word in this statement is "had").
Unfortunately, sometime after v21.7.02 that awful look made its way into the latest MX-19 installer (21.10.04mx19 as of this posting).
To get a better understanding of what I am talking about, look at the screenshots of the three mx-installers mentioned above. All the screenshots are using the Template for an Encrypted installation at their default settings. I also removed the installer "help" column on the left side of the installer window in order to expand the main window for a more simple display.
MX-21_RC1 mx-installer 21.10.09 (newest MX-21 installer)
MX-21_mx-installer_21.10.09.png
MX-19.4 mx-installer 21.7.02mx19 (installer included with the MX-19.4 15July2021 (downloaded) snapshot)
There is a Live MX-19.4 USB Flash Drive connected for the installation and notice that this drive (sdb) is absent in this window, which is good (in my opinion)
MX-19_mx-installer_21.7.02mx19.png
MX-19.4 mx-installer 21.10.04mx19 (newest MX-19 installer) - it got worse...
MX-19_mx-installer_21.10.04mx19.png
Edit: All three screenshots were made with the installer seeing the same 250GB unformatted SSD.
To the credit of the newer installers, the correct partition size for sda3 is displayed (224.1 GB) as well as displaying it in gigabytes vice megabytes whereas the older installer (21.7.02) shows an incorrect sda3 size of 229483 MB which is impossible when sda4 adds an additional 8.192 GB when there is only 232.9 GB available. And it still using megabytes vice gigabytes. So the newer installers are better overall.