On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> Sebastián Magrí wrote: >>>> >>>> The installation experience with the traditional method must be >>>> mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is >>>> deprecated... >>> >>> That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to >>> install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI >>> installer, not much that can be done. >>> >>> Gentoo isn't unsuitable for a GUI installer. It's stage 3, after all. >> >> gentoo had its highest popularity when there were no gui installer (and no >> stable tree). This kept the stupid ' I don't want to read docs' crowd away. > > That's a contradicting statement. How was the popularity at highest if it > kept a crowd away?
Because once those who know what they were doing have to resort to "Learn to read", "Read The Friendly Manual", and "Ever heard of Google?" so often, after likely having answered the same questions 10+times each, they all get a bad reputation, hurting the real popularity of the system. Also, you can't count popularity of something like Gentoo from the number that start to try it and give up half way through the install... but rather by those who're still using it some meaningful amount of time. All... *entirely* wild guesses, though. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
