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'm glad someone finally said it. Even Windows XP installs with a (bluescreen-based
) text-mode installer. When I had a CRT screen, I even much preferred text-mode to the (say) Redhat flicker graphics installer. Debian 2.2, as I remember, was just as easy to install as XP now. Debian 2.1 was my first Linux (after one year prior exposure to Win98), and I never understood why people claimed it to be unfriendly to newbies...
In the Debian manual it said "a chicken can install Debian, it just has to push return most of the time". Damn right they are!