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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It's not the fact that they don't have a graphical installer that doesn't make them suitable for newcomers to linux, it's also due to the fact that debian comes with some quite old software, though stable and Slack doesn't configure the sound and graphics during the setup.
Now, if the respective newbie really wants to learn linux he will overcome those shortcomings, and in doing so he will learn a lot about the inner workings of linux
This was my own case.My first distro was slack 8,and i still found it irrtitating because my sound and graohics card were not working.In it's current form, Debian is better suited for servers, it ain't for someone who just wants to play moives, surf the net and listen to music beacause of two things:
1)The packages are older versions, chosen for stability, but for a normal user, newer packages are recomende, especially in linux, were the graphical environments are evolving very quickly
2)Slack doesn't detect the graphics and sound during setup, and this can be very frustrating, while debian's setup is less user friendly tha Slack,It's quite powerfull, but it requires a somewhat deeper understanding of linux.