Discussion on Ease of Installation Issues.
lets discuss why all linux distributions have to install manually, has
anyone thought of making an installer, which installs completely as a
backround process, for example someone pops in a mandrake CD, and "now
loading" shows up, then some silly game shows up while its loading, and they
play the game while everything installs, this is what consoles do, i wonder
if it would work on the PC, what do you all think of backround installation?
Not powerful,but for newbies
<Lucian> Also, what do you all think about drag and drop installs, you have
a CD in the drive, you are in gnome or nautilus, and you drag the game icon
from the CD to a folder on your machine and it installs there.
There should also be an option for power users. So, Manual Install, and
Automatic Install.
Automatic Install once turned on installs everything in the backround with
no user input whatsoever.
Manual Install Installs everything in the usual way.
This way newbies will have no problems upgrading the kernel or whatever.
Automatic Installs would be hard to program i know that. But Image being
able to just put a CD into your machine, and not having to click anything
just watching whatever is on the CD load up on your screen.
Currently it seems to work for video game consoles, and it works on the Mac.
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