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 agree with the artcle. I actually prefer a good text based installer to a graphical one. I love the old RedHat menu based text installer. It was so easy to use... Easy to select packages, setup networking, etc...
The old text based Yast from SuSE is also a good one.
I really haven't seen a graphical installer I would consider easier or superior to previous text based ones.
Graphical doesn't always mean better...