* on 03-22-04, Number Six wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:55:57AM -0500, Bill White wrote: > > I think Debian is hard to install. The magazine reviewers all > > say Debian is too hard to install, and the lists see a huge > > number of people saying it's too hard to install. Now you have > > a user who says it's too hard to install, and you ridicule him. > > > > Maybe it's too hard to install. > > It takes a month, and about 15 clean do-overs. Each individual > element > of hardware and eye/ear-candy is a journey of discovery (except > for > things like LPT ports and hard drives which "just work").
For the record, I've never found Debian hard to install, even when I didn't know much about Linux. I see people say the installer sucks everywhere I look, but it was fairly intuitive for me. I was evening installing over the net using a PC card, and had no real problems. Sure, I had the odd install go haywire on me every now and then, but out of probably 25 Debian installs, this only happened two or three times. I realize I must be in the minority, and that Red Hat's installer *is* pretty, but I just don't see Debian's installer as the egregious UI disaster some make it out to be. My two cents. /></ -- linkswarm.com :: Collaborative Insolence megarad.com :: Killing You With Technology vasudeva.megarad.com :: For The Faint of Heart
