On Thu, February 19, 2015 02:25, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Le 19/02/2015 05:43, Chris Murphy a écrit :
My personal view on installers is extremely biased toward the user staying out of trouble, they shouldn't have to read documentation for a GUI installer.
A *user* never has to even see - or use - an installer. A USER has to USE a computer, by which I mean the applications he or she needs to get some work done.
Outside of the corporate world, and very often at the low-end of that itself, the user is the ADMIN. One can purchase computer systems with the OS and applications pre-installed of course. But, at some point, in every sufficiently complex and long-lived environment somebody has to do maintenance. Which on occasion does include installing operating systems.
And even ADMINs can use some help from time-to-time. Let us be frank, the Linux/GNU hoge-poge of syntax makes the English language look positively simple in comparison. And that is not a good thing.