Linked by Paul Hankes Drielsma on Tue 15th Apr 2003 06:40 UTC
I can't take anymore comments like "Debian/Gentoo/OpenBSD/etc. are not good/user-friendly because they lack a graphical installer." Searching the web, I couldn't find a comprehensive site describing the good and the bad about graphical installers for various OSes throughout the years, so in this article I hope to debunk a few of the myths on the basis of my own personal and professional experience.
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I personally feel the Gentoo install is just fine as it is when one is just installing it on one computer (which is all I had to do), but I can see why people do want a decent cli installer when they may be installing on several systems.
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Hopefully a good one will be made. However, certain things just don't lend themselves to automation, and I would imagine most of those wanting this worked on have no experience with OS installers. I sure know I don't. In fact, I don't know anyone who does (to be honest I don't think I even want to have experience with it