Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:02:33PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> True. Perhaps it would have been better stated by saying that every distro >> that wants to cater to Desktop users needs to implement a GUI installer >> (and many other GUI tools). > > Why? The *user* has zero business installing the box. Yes, Joe Moron > benefits from having GUI tools, because they mean he doesn't have to think, > but it matters not for the installer.
Well, having administered many flavors of Unix boxes, I have to say I miss the Digital Unix (or whatever they called it around 4.0 coming out) graphical disk partitioning tool. A lot of the time, it's just easier to be able to adjust partition sizes with a slider than to reduce a partition by some amount so you can make another bigger. And before they had the graphical one, I used ed to edit... whatever file disklabel read to install the disk label. I'm hardly a moron, but some things *are* easier with graphical tools. Point and click is more nearly random-access for selecting a few things from a long list than a curses interface (why I tend to prefer configuring my kernels with "make xconfig"). Reading documentation is also easier in a window system, if it can be brought up in a separate window. I'm sure there's other benefits that could accrue to even seasoned sysadmins, and if it lowers the bar for the skill required to install debian, this is a bad thing because? I'm not for simplemindedly glossing over details the installer actually should know and understand, but that's somewhat orthogonal to a graphical installer. -- Eric E. Moore
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