[arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

[Brendan Long]

On 12/17/2009 12:35 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> 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.
>   
 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?