On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Sebastián Magrí wrote: > >>> The installation experience with the traditional method must be > >>> mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is > >>> deprecated... > >> > >> That's not good. It hurts Gentoo's popularity if it's not easy to > >> install. But since there are not enough devs left for the GUI > >> installer, not much that can be done. > >> > >> Gentoo isn't unsuitable for a GUI installer. It's stage 3, after all. > > > > gentoo had its highest popularity when there were no gui installer (and > > no stable tree). This kept the stupid ' I don't want to read docs' crowd > > away. > > That's a contradicting statement. How was the popularity at highest if > it kept a crowd away?
because it kept the 'i am too cool to read the docs' idiots away. Being forced to read the documentation is a good thing - and it did not hurt gentoo's popularity. Only after it started to catering to idiots and more and more of loud mouthed 'I am the centre of the universe, I don't need to read docs, use google or bugzilla. I demand an answer and help NOW' assholes came on board, the popularity went down.
