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 will summarize my opinion about this matter with Tsu Dho Nimh own words:
"I want an operating system that works like a Honda Accord and not a kit-car project."
Most of us are USERS not operating system conceptors nor teenager computer geek alike. We want it to work from the first time we insert the CDRom until the time we need to upgrade one of our favourite application and this with less user interaction or at least with minimalistic OS internal knowledge. Windows and OSX are d
Don't tell me that you prefer an american car ...