Is the installer actually open source? I searched a week ago for the beta source and it wasn't available yet.<p>(I'm quite annoyed by the current developments in cyanogenmod: Less and less is open source as it seems...)
I _literally_ installed CM10 on my Samsung Galaxy S2 the hard way today, spending nearly 8 hours getting the right tools, the android sdk, figuring out why adb would not find my device and after a ton of cursing finally got it to load.<p>And then I had to also install gapps by using the Clockwordmod recovery mode.<p>A gigantic pain in the ass! I wish I would have attempted this tomorrow, would have saved me a ton of trouble!
CyanogenMod dramatically improved the experience on my first droid (which was a very cheap one, to see what all the fuss was about.) It couldn't solve the hardware issues (crappy resistive touch screen) but it sure made the device more responsive and usable, in spite of that.<p>I'm pleased to see them making the install process easier. I wasn't quite heart-in-mouth since it was a £50 second hand and spare phone, but it was still pretty long winded and there were too many opportunities to brick the thing.
I saw a few negative reviews on Google Play arguing that a turn key solution might let some people not read the detailed instructions, warnings and risks thoroughly. Being a CM user, I must say I agree with this. Reminds me of a thread in XDA where a post read - If you are asking the question what is root, then you probably don't need it (paraphrasing).<p>Let alone the instructions/warnings/risks, I know many Android users who barely go through the permissions they grant an app during installation.<p>A little off topic, but an instance that I thought impressed the gravity of the risks and partly cracked me up was the warning on Alpharev [1] "Warning: Make sure you have read all the warnings below before attempting to run this utility!"<p>[1] <a href="http://alpharev.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://alpharev.nl/</a>
<i>(I have installed CM in the past myself on my old phone, but have not done it yet with this phone because last time it was a pain in the ass to install, and was unstable to boot)</i><p>It is linked from the blog entry, but I cannot find the windows side installer linked from their homepage while the android side software is.<p>This sort of oversight is incredibly frustrating for me, and I consider myself fairly technically capable... I can only imagine that this is even more frustrating for more typical users.