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by mediocregopher 4981 days ago
Extremely misleading title. Maybe the utility to download and flash the device only takes one click to use, but we can't just ignore the fact that you have to actually get the device in recovery mode etc to even reach that step. I like that my nexus could potentially have ubuntu on it, but I think it's important to not purposefully misrepresent the steps it would take to get there.
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We did think about adding 'fastboot oem unlock' to our installer script, but decided against for UX reasons. Asking the user to do some ugly looking terminal commands hopefully scared away the folks who least understood what they might have been getting into, as it is explicitly intended to be a developer build.

As for the various blog headlines, we obviously don't have control over those.

[edit] Oops, I see you might have been referring to the wiki. Thanks, I cleaned up the wording a bit to say "graphical installer" instead of "one-click installer". Thanks.