Tyson,
I guess I'm just expressing frustration at not being able to master the
installation process.
Agreed, Debian dselect does a tremendous lot of work during the install
process, and it's very infrequent that dependency or other warnings are
issued during a Win95 product install. In the hands of a Debian expert,
my future son-in-law, the process is pretty impressive and quick, even
if it's rather mysterious when I try to duplicate the process on my own.
For those of us coming to linux, Debian or otherwise, from the business
environment where when we ask the system (Mac or Win 95) to do an
install for a package, we can be pretty confident that, in fact, the
install will happen and we can be pretty confident that when the install
is finished, the particular package will work as advertised.
Mainly I'm on the initial learning curve, where one needs a "whereis"
command to find out where particular file or set of files is located in
the file structure, where one needs a "list" command to quickly display
the contents of a given file, both in ascii and hex. Those two commands
were invaluable to me when I was learning my way around DOS.
Eventho RedHat has fewer components, if that's the case, at least its
CD produced a running system with much less effort on my part as a first
time user. Getting over that hurdle and finding the right tools to
navigate around the new system seems to me to be critical to the
understanding of how things work.
Hope that explains my position a little better. Thanks,
Dave
Tyson Dowd wrote:
> Perhaps you could explain why you think the Mac/Win UI is better?
> Is it just prettier, or is there some way in which it is a "better"
> interface for doing the job?
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