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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Hrm, I found Synaptic far easier to use than a Windows installer...
Click once to update your apt cache, click again to shift focus to the search box, click a third time to select the application, click "install" and click on start...
Much easier, IMHO, than having to go through an InstallShield...wherein you will have (generally) at least 5 or 6 clicks...and many times will have nested InstallShields to install dependancies of the Windows application...
Whereas with synaptic, you just need to know either a name of an application or some idea of a description of what you want the application to do...and it will show you a list of applications that meet your requirements, download them for you, and set everything up. Every once in a while you'll get a question or two about the application you're installing's options, but other than that, it couldn't be much easier.
...but that's just my opinion...