Another rant

[Liam Proven]

On 24 November 2017 at 10:29, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Archo doesn't even have an installation program.
>
> You mean it doesn't have a gui installation program.

No. I meant exactly what I said.

I don't know how you did it. I've only done it once; this is how:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

No installer. The user does the installation steps themself,
individually, at a shell prompt.

> Gentoo doesn't have that kind of
> automation but they both have very easy instructions that anyone can
> follow. It's not rocket science.

Tell me, have you ever worked in tech support?

For about 98% of the population, an instruction such as "open Chrome
and go to this web address" is incomprehensible.

This is how users see security warnings:

https://twitter.com/fstabr/status/914943801424334848

This is why:

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

> They're more difficult to install but just as easy to configure as
> Ubuntu. It's Linux after all.

Yes. And that means that for ordinary, non-technical people, it is
impossible arcane.

> Fedora's installer's almost as sparse, question-wise, as Ubuntu's but
> its interface is moronic.

I agree there.

For a start, some idiot thought it should be non-linear, when
installation is a linear process. Secondly, it is not designed to
dual-boot with other Linux distros, because RH does not support this.

I criticised it on the company-wide mailing list. I got fired for it.

I got a customer-service award and thanks from my colleagues for
bringing it up, but I still got fired.

>> MS has said Win10 is the last ever release.
>
> OS X envy anyone? LOL

Something like that, yes! :-)


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