Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review

Marcus Thiesen writes "Debian Installer Beta 3 was released two days ago and I wrote a small review concerning the installation part. The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution. Nontheless there are a few usability things and I thought that it might be a good idea to write a walkthrough from another point of view: Bob 'average' User."

Comments

Wow

[Dark Lord Seth]

The new debian installer is good way to set up your favorite distribution.

The Debian Installer can install Slackware then?

Re:Wow

[RichardK]

The Debian Installer can install Slackware then?

Don't you know that EVERYONE'S favourite dist is Debain?? Or at least SHOULD be Debian.
Throw caution to the wind. Grow some new chest hairs and install Debian, the only GREAT distribution!

This is, of course, my unbiased opinion... can't you tell?

Re:Wow

[Tuxinatorium]

No, but here's what God has to say about slackware, you Debian-hating infidel: thus spake GOD to the Debian Infidels

Re:Wow

[Billly Gates]

No that would be FreeBSD silly.

Re:Wow

[zerocool^]

Necrophile.

Bob?

[Deraj DeZine]

point of view: Bob 'average' User

What happened to Joe User? Did he finally wise up about using GUIs and get fired or something? I never really liked Joe User, anyway (I mean, what an idiot!), I'm just curious.

Re:Bob?

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, Joe User died while doing a stage1 Gentoo install. Heart attack, I hear.

Re:Bob?

[Anonymous Coward]

I just did some research on this topic, and it appears that Joe User isn't the first such character to mysteriously disappear. Joe Schmoe, Joe Sixpack, Average Andy, and Norman the Norm all predated even Joe User.

After watching a recent documentary on male models, I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps these average folk are being snapped up by the RIAA or MPAA to assassinate world leaders who threaten their indefinite copyrights and other ridiculous intellectual property arrangements.

Isn't "new" and "debian" in the same sentence

[Anonymous Coward]

an oxymoron? :P

Re:Reminds me of Redhat

[reub2000]

Complete with linux 2.2.20 and XFree86 4.1.0.

Those screenshots look familiar...

[Anonymous Coward]

So this is where RedHat 5.x installer went to... I was wondering what happened to it.

Re:Debian Going Mainstream?

[sydb]

Debian is usually an elitist group of users.

Come now, we are not elitist, we are simply elite.

We do not seek Nirvana, we are already there.

Eh?

[be-fan]

Though the earlier screen had told him that his selection would affect his location he was still at the same place, in front of his old PC. ...and...
But it didn't matter as he just had deleted his Windows 98 with fdisk.

The "average user" is happy to see that the computer didn't teleport him somewhere else, but can still figure out Windows 98 fdisk???

Online reviews would be much better if we could moderate by throwing rotten fruit at the author...

Re:Debian Going Mainstream?

[flacco]

"You use Redhat? What are you a girl or something?"

i'm 99% certain this was just desperate wishful thinking on behalf of the debian geeks.

Re:Different from Windows xx how?

[Waffle Iron]

Have you seen an Apple installer?

No, but I can imagine it...

Select system type:

• Apple
• Apple
• Apple

Select case color:

• Magenta
• Cyan
• Lemon Yellow
• Lime Green

Select case style:

• Translucent
• Opaque

Select mouse type:

• 1 button
• 1 button
• 1 button

[Abort] [Finish]