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. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3