Star Debunking Some Myths About Graphical Installers
Linked by Paul Hankes Drielsma on Tue 15th Apr 2003 06:40 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces 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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All the good Linux installers are command line
by Jim on Tue 15th Apr 2003 13:59 UTC

portage, apt-get, urpmi, even rpm can be used from a command line. It's just a pain to cd to /home/jim/temp/random-app.3.5.7.0b to insall random-app.3.5.7.0b from command sometimes. Thank god for tab, but even the command line Linux installers don't touch Winodws' 3 click install setup.exe's. Even if I had go to DOS to install them, the Linux install process is still a broken mess by comparison.