Star The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface?
Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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I simply would not care if I had to make install every single app on my box, but the problem is that packages and even make installs often fail or break other software. When I am installed there is not one database that tracks what was installed and where.

If there was one method of packaging and installing software in Linux that worked 100% of the time _anyone_ could learn and use it even if it were time consuming and complex.

apt-get (debian - but for the love of god use backports or the sid/'unstable' tree)
or if you prefer to compile;
emerge (gentoo - not that I use it)