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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The author is right that a command line install can be just as easy to do as any GUI. I have installed Gentoo and had no real problems other than the slow speed(I understand why, this is just an observation). I have tried OpenBSD a couple of times and it is not so good. I believe the installer is designed to keep people away for at least two reasons. First, the part where you partition the disk make no sense until you already know the system. Secondly, I have read that Theo likes it that way because it discourages people who are not "serious" enough. It discouraged me, since FreeBSD worked well enough that I could not see why I should have to guess myself through OpenBSD's installer. I hope they change this someday, since I would like to try OpenBSD.