Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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The way I see it, without installers, I strongly believe that Linux will never amount to anything in the mainstream market.
I see this as a step in the wrong direction. installers are messy, non-standard, and potentially dangerous. A good package management system standardises package installation and calculates dependencies, which leads to fewer incompatibilities and broken installations. A good package manager can also verify packages with a gpg signature. I can never understand why this complaint still arises. It took me all of two weeks to realize the superiority of package management.