Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks
Hal Vaughan wrote:
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While some people do better with a command line interface, others do much
better with an intuitive or graphical interface.
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Some people
learn and take in information best when everything is neat and orderly.
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You may like the curses interface. Good for you. Others may, for MANY
reasons, prefer a more intiutive interface.
Adding a GUI installer is just as much a part of technical excellence as
anything else Debian.
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I can't _believe_ I'm letting myself get sucked into this thread . . . :-)
I believe you may be confusing some of your terms. The opposite of GUI
is not necessarily CLI, and a curses-based interface is not necessarily
non-intuitive. A curses interface that says "Press the ENTER key on your
keyboard to install Foo" is just as intuitive as "Click the button below
with your mouse to install Foo" (in fact, some might argue that it's
more intuitive, as almost everyone in the world has pushed a button at
one time or another, yet millions, maybe billions, have never touched a
mouse).
The problem with a GUI installer on Debian is that Debian doesn't run
only on i386, like some of the more "popular" distros. In such a
situation, it's very hard to write a GUI that'll work the same and look
the same on 11 or 16 (or however many) different architectures.
Granted, the text-based (whether CLI or curses-based) installer needs
work, but that can be accomplished without resorting to a GUI.
I think that what most people who clammer for a GUI installer really
want is a more easy-to-accomplish installation, not necessarily a
graphics-based installation. Of course, I could be wrong. (That'd be the
third time this year if I am - doh!)
Kent
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