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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Hi
I think the reason why people bash the Debian installer is not because it is not graphical.
In fact, that's what THEY say but I'm pretty sure that's not what they really want. IMO, what users really want is an easy installer. One with hardware auto-detection, one that only asks VERY important questions, one that can be acheived in ess than 10 clicks etc...
The fact is that most graphical installers are user-friendly for the reasons I've just given while most text-based graphical installers aren't user-friendly for the same reasons.
So, people tend to think that making a graphical version of the Debian installer would make it easy, which is wrong.
For example, I recently installed Redhat 8 using the text-based installer and it was a real joy. No problem found. All my hardware wasdetected etc... while I always have problems with Debian installer because it asks too many questions I can't even undertsand...