Re: Notes on improving the installer

I have added idea for "Migrate to FreeBSD" to the wiki :-) As people
with decent computers cannot upgrade to Win11 there is a very strong
push in looking for alternatives. For sure Linux is the first choice
but it may be leveraged to migrate to FreeBSD and bring new crowd of
users :-)

https://wiki.freebsd.org/ImproveInstaller

=== Migrate to FreeBSD ===

 * Because of Win11 not running on decent but older machines people
look for alternatives. This can be leveraged to bring whole new crowd
of users to the FreeBSD community desktop (LDWG).
 * Minimal installer path for non computer users with all complex
setup questions hidden by default but possible to select when needed.
 * Resize existing partitions so that FreeBSD can be installed on the same disk.
 * Copy existing user data from old system partitions (i.e. user
downloads documents music videos, maybe other places to select, maybe
some backups of application settings, etc).
 * Ask if dual boot is desired to keep old system "just in case" or
remove old system and resize FreeBSD partitions to fill in the free
space. If old system is kept then provide easy way to remove it after
some time when user is ready.
 * Provide set of packages to install (i.e. KDE, LXQT, XFCE, desktop
environments, productivity packages such as LibreOffice, Firefox,
Chromium, VLC, OBS, education, science, math, music, etc). From my
experience non computer people feel best in KDE.


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