Anaconda is getting a new suit (Fedora Community Blog)

TL;DW: It's a semi-comedic sci-fi/alt-future video essay describing the role of Javascript (whose pronunciation has apparently changed to "Yavascript" for some reason) as the new assembly language, in a brave new world where the DOM lives in the kernel (DOM = document object model - the data model used by modern web browsers in the real world to describe an HTML page together with its associated styles and scripts) and userspace lives in the Javascript VM (C stuff compiled via asm.js, non-C stuff transpiled directly into pure Javascript). However, a lack of foresight causes the speech to misidentify the calamity that began in 2020 as a war rather than a pandemic.

Of course, if it's "fancy" enough and w3m works, then even ssh can be used to handle a Fedora install :) .

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/cockpit-desktop.1

This works very well so far and IMHO already quite well used and tested.

Its Python/GTK wrapper over Webkit, so it actually does not drag in any extra stuff on the installation image as all three are already present.

And of course if you wanted a really small image, you can make a headless one and still have a nice remote GUI support. :)

All the installers I use in anger are console based. Yes, I have seen the pretty ones but I can't be arsed with them in general. Linux (and of course the BSDs etc) lends itself to a very simple install model: partition the disc and slap on enough code to get an interface up and running that can be used to get more stuff as needed.

I want my servers to be minimal and my desktops to be maximal.

Linux installers are streets ahead of Windows which has improved somewhat itself. I love the Debian and Ubuntu pretty jobbies way of slapping code on the box whilst still asking questions. Sadly Windows then fucks up by asking for permission to intrude on your life every time you create a new user profile. It's so needy that it is becoming embarrassing and quite hard to explain to end users.

Seriously, there need to be really good, small, quick, text only / preseeded / Kickstarted
type installs that are lightweight enough that they can be gone through in five minutes
/ scripted. If RHEL etc. really want this - it does need to be so secured from remote misuse as to be hard to use.

1. Move to another OS. The Ubuntu and Debian installers have remained text only. Arch is good for people who really like to dig down into the internals of a system.
2. Fork and take over the older installer you like. Very few seem to ever take this route in the Fedora world compared to the 100 deviations of Debian there. I think it is because it is an enormous amount of work.
3. Stick with the last version of the OS you liked. Lots of people take this route with systems from Fedora 8 still showing up daily.
4. Watch them either accomplish what they set out or learn lessons about why they couldn't.
5. Just write a kickstart and use that to do the installs.
6. Use a different tool to build images that you will run.

I can also say that for the most part low-end systems are not a target for Fedora anymore. The current installer needs things like 2.5 GB or more at times.

The linked comments on that post indicates that they are planning to use WebKit that calls into the existing Anaconda backend via D-Bus (retaining the separate TUI, kickstart etc) and works similar to the existing Cockpit desktop (https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/cockpit-desktop.1) Don't see a chicken and egg issue here.