Hi Brett
On Saturday 05 November 2005 12:45, Brett Parker wrote:
Hang on... Paul... this is a really silly question I know... but have you actually *used* d-i?!
To be honest - No.
Once I have installed Debian by what ever means available, I never need to look at running an installer again (for my own systems).
Personally, I *hate* the 'pretty' installers of SuSE, RedHat and Windows... they get the hell in the way of installing, display stupid advertising saying "we are the best, all hail us", and put additional load on the system that is completely unneccessary for an install.
To quote Scotty from one of the Star Trek films... "Ooo, a keyboard. How quaint"
To be fair to Red Hat & SuSE, they do offer an ncurses based installer if you really, really want to use a keyboard. Personally, I see nothing wrong with being able to have the option of a purty GUI install. Anything that simplifies installation and removes another barrier that would otherwise discourage a convert from the dark side is a good thing IMO, BYMMV..
I like my CLI and use Midnight Commander as my day to day pocket knife for just about everything. Avoiding the emacs-vi argument is easy - I see no point in mashing a keyboard so treat both with the same degree of disdain. But I still like my KDE desktop with all the konsole sessions plastered over three screens, twenty odd html files open in mumble,mumble konqueror windows on a second virtual desktop..
Regards, Paul.