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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Sorry, forgot to add,
A) Win2k's textmode installer is not possible to use because there is no access to the 2K full-screen console when run by kernel (the same is true for OS/2) whose screen readers need the GUI. This is pointed out to emphasise that knowing the ins-and-outs is frequently vital to knowing if I'll even get the install (however complex) to run, and
B) You may have observed that Debian and Slack are text-aware distros - Redhat could work but my choice was based on getting the system running and the amount of tutorial work at the console it takes to do stuff. Graphical applications have their place for the blind as well as for the sighted for convenience reasons (see me do word processing from the console :-)?, and when Linux finally reaches that stage where a screen reader (Gnopernicus) gets me support for X/Gnome2 there'll only be one partition on my disk :-)
That'll be all. :-)