"Mayayana" writes:

That's the essential Linux problem. The fan
club wants to evangelize, but they dislike the idea
that the product should serve the audience. They
want to convert people to Linux, but woe to anyone
who then asks for a functioning software installer
and a good help file.

Can't imagine what you are going on about.

First you are magically tuned into the developers motives and you have
reached an unlikely conclusion. You think someone has something
to gain by creating a less than useful product.
On it's face, that conclusion is ridiculous.

Second, all the major distros have had fully graphical installers
for ages. Just click a couple of buttons and install the software.
Or uninstall it. Imagine that.

Don't like typing in complex commands like:

yum install gimp

Go ahead, bring up the graphical installer.
Select install, click on multimedia tools, click on Gimp.
If that floats your boat, that has been working for years.

So, anyone else reading Mayayana's rants, I suggest you take them
with a grain of salt. And remember, you don't even have to install
Linux on your hard disk to see what it runs like.
You can burn a CD or create a boot USB stick.
No change to your OS at all, all you do is boot up and run.

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Dan Espen