Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)
by dsr_ on Friday February 02, 2018 @07:35PM
(#16295393)
A few of the default Debian packages give feedback messages like "This could take a long time..."
Most of them used to take a long time, but hardware has caught up. SSH key generation, locale installation. Instead, it's a warning that briefly appears on modern systems, but is visible for quite a while on, say, a Raspberry Pi.
Most of them used to take a long time, but hardware has caught up. SSH key generation, locale installation. Instead, it's a warning that briefly appears on modern systems, but is visible for quite a while on, say, a Raspberry Pi.