[arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Thu Dec 17 14:35:52 EST 2009


On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:22 -0500
Denis Kobozev <d.v.kobozev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > did that guy actually say that point and click visual installers
> > are a time *saver* ?? is he out of his mind?
> 
> It seems that most reviews on distrowatch.com come from the standpoint
> that Ubuntu is the ultimate user-friendly system. Arch, Gentoo and
> Slackware users beg to differ, but I guess the most typical Linux user
> agrees and that's who they are catering to.

it's not about userfriendliness, which is a very subjective topic.
it's about time duration, which is scientifically measurable.

I'm pretty sure a scripted automatic installation goes faster then
one where you need to point and click to make it do things.


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