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This article is quite on spot. I think a good chunk of users approaching NetBSD is driven away by an unintuitive, over-engineered, and sometimes buggy installer.
The partitioning UI expects a degree of understanding which many users lack nowadays. And that is a shame.
Poor CGD/LVM integration and lacking ZFS support make it not very useful for non-standard configurations (user has to resolve to CLI).
This article is quite on spot. I think a good chunk of users approaching NetBSD is driven away by an unintuitive, over-engineered, and sometimes buggy installer. The partitioning UI expects a degree of understanding which many users lack nowadays. And that is a shame. Poor CGD/LVM integration and lacking ZFS support make it not very useful for non-standard configurations (user has to resolve to CLI).