[plug] distro question: 'standard'?

John Knight anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 16 11:08:52 WST 2003


Sounds good, I know there's been plenty of times when I'd much rather have 
used a text based installer, I'm from the generation of 'command-line 
frontends' though, I grew up on Norton Commander. ;) Libranet basically 
sounds like what I'm looking for (checked out the website).

Make lunch, not war.
>
>On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:34:08AM +0800, John Knight wrote:
> > Sounds good, how's the installer? She won't be put off when I play 
>around
> > with it?
>
>Linux Today reviews Libranet here:
>
>	http://www.linuxiran.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=232
>
>         Only one word can describe Libranet's installer: 'awesome'.
>         Libranet's installer is text based (gasp), but it is simple,
>         clean, easy to use, and smooth. Unfortunately there is this
>         mentality among many computer users that everything graphical
>         is easy to use, and anything text based is geeky and is not
>         user friendly. Libranet's installer just shows how wrong this
>         mentality is. I myself have dozens of times found my self in a
>         situation dealing with a graphical installer, where I just
>         don't know where to click because everything is so messed up.
>         And I don't understand why some people call those eye candy
>         useless installers which are barely able to perform their
>         jobs; 'user friendly'. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing
>         against a graphical installer. But in my opinion an installer
>         (or in fact any kind of program) can be good and user
>         friendly, or can be bad an useless, regardless of wether they
>         are graphical or text based.
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