Usable installers ?

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:
> On 11/21/05 3:21 PM, "Mathewson" <richmond at mail.maclaunch.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Gosh, Richard Gaskin has obviously got the 'rough end' of
>>Linux.
> 
> 
> No, I think Richard was talking about installers for other programs (not for
> installing Linux) and the lack of a consistent way of installing 3rd party
> programs on various versions of Linux. I'm sure the *Linux* installers are
> easy...

While I do find it needlessly annoying that each window manager has its 
own distinct mechanisms for basic things like file and icon 
associations, in this case I was referring to the need for an admin to 
install the OS.  If the OS installer were more usable end-users could 
confidently do it themselves.

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