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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By Alex (IP: ---.broadlight.com) - Posted on 2003-04-15 08:56:22
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It's much easier to find some option in a good-designed GUI if you don't remember its exact name, than to find the same option for a CLI utility. Not all of us are blind typers, and it is generally easier to do two clicks and not to type "--option-one --option-two".
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And I do not kludged and bloated CLI config tools / configuration files - yes, there are such. And it's much easier to perform some little typo in a text configuration file and to make the application unusable. Or let's suppose you erroneously selected some parameters which can't be combined, e.g "A and B" and "A and C" is valid, but "A and B and C" is not, and you enabled "A and B and C". A good GUI would prevent you from doing that.
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OMFG!!!
Sorry this just annoyed me immensely - has this guy USED a text installer???
A CLI install (al la gentoo / LFS) is NOT the same as a Text install al la slack,FreeBSD,Debian etc.
Obviously he hasn't used one of these installers or he would realise the difference between a gui install and a text install basically the pretty graphics. The slackware installer couldn't be easier to use.