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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

Depends what kind of newbie. To the right kind of nerd a well-organized technical installer is not a deterrent, on the contrary.

I don't think people realise that most Linux distros had arcane install processes not unlike Arch until around 2000, when a few of them started introducing simplified graphical installers (Corel, Caldera and Red Hat's Anaconda I think were most popular). Debian for instance only switched to graphical in 2006 with Etch beta 3 (although tbf they did have a text-mode UI before that).

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