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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This is why preferences DO matter.
I find it much easier to man find use the option and get the result if I even have to look an option or syntax up than to go through a gui and the preferences panel and re-adjust options and then get the results. I can type faster than I can click is what I mean.
However, to each his own. Really. The author had some good points and I think that is just as elitist to sit and say that its 2003 why are you still typing as opposed to clicking as it to tell someone they are not techie or l33t because they use gui tools.
Why? Because sometimes the command line is the fastest easiest way. Notice I said sometimes. For larger office apps I have no desire to go back to the CLI days of WordPerfect 5.2 or Lotus 1-2-3 or whatever. However, for system utilities I find in my opinion before I get flamed that the command line is the way to go.
BTW, most linux installers including redhat have a text-based mode for those that want it.
Sometimes the move to eyecandy is not always good though I still want a Graphical background to my RedHat boot process like on SuSE :->. BTW, I know its coming just not fast enough.