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 have to agree with Jon Dough, majority of users get a system with OS preinstalled and when they buy a new comp it again comes with OS. Those who tinker around are usually strongly opinionated people so what is a good installer depends on who you ask, basically they (tinkers) and we (occasional tinkers) prefer control over design. Win 2k and Win XP instilled from 4 or 6 floppies start of with a text based install and a good one. RH (I have had experience since 6.0) and SuSE (since 7.3) always have had good installers, text or GUI, but their concepts are different-step by step in RH or all in one page in SuSE- and there's an ongoing dispute what is better, ask Eugenia. Author of the article made some good points in regard to this hot topic.