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 do fully agree with the author.I remember Red Hat's and SuSE's first GUI installer which operated in a 'kind of interlaced mode' and you had a pretty nasty -because flickering- screen. What advantage did I have over a well looking simple text based, yet colourful screen?
I do fully agree with the author.I remember Red Hat's and SuSE's first GUI installer which operated in a 'kind of interlaced mode' and you had a pretty nasty -because flickering- screen. What advantage did I have over a well looking simple text based, yet colourful screen?