Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

On 12/17/2009 04:22 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:49 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:40:03 -0700 Brendan Long wrote:

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Isn't the Arch installer always graphical, with a menu and stuff? Just because you use your keyboard instead of a mouse and it doesn't use X doesn't really make it any less user-friendly does it?

no. it can also do fully automated installations.

but it's a quite recent feature so I don't blame anyone for not knowing it. (take my previous reactions with a grain of salt and some humor ;)

Dieter

It does fully automated? Haven't looked at the installer since installing (go figure).

Ubuntu's installer goes much faster though, if the benchmark is 'to a working gnome system', especially for those of us with slow internet connections who aren't able to download half a Gb here and there at the snap of a finger. Nothing to do with the point-and-click, more about the fact that with Arch you do have to download pretty big files, and multiple times (sort of like, install xorg and related packages, wait.... configure, install alsa/sound related packages, wait... configure)

The downloading big packages step isn't any better with Ubuntu, you just get to wait until after the installation is over and then install a huge number of updates -- a problem that would be much worse if Ubuntu ever updated anything.