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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No! No! No! The text age should absolutely _NOT_ come to an end, at least not while I'm alive
So you like GUI's. Fine, go ahead and use a GUI-based OS, there's plenty of those around.
But I (and though it may well be a minority, I'm not alone on this) prefer text-based systems. Sure I do use X because some apps need to be graphical (image viewers etc.), and to be able to nicely fit a lot of xterms on my screen. But I do not want kludged and bloated GUI config tools. And I absolutely not want to be locked out on certain areas of the system (like M$ Windows does, and some Linux distro's are starting to go down this alley too...)
Look at it this way: Suppose you prefer wine over beer, should we all stop drinking beer?