Quote Originally Posted by bryansmith
What about Ubuntu? It's pretty newbie friendly and it's installer is definetly not graphical
exactly the comment I was going to make. I installed Ubuntu no problem at all and it isn't a graphical installer. Its by no means a lousy distro either, seeing as its the first distro i've tried to sucessfully pick up all of my hardware first try (with the exception of my flat screen of course, i think that no distros auto detect it lol). Also maybe a more careful choice of words would suit you better. Instead of using awful and lousy, try using something a little more positive because its not the programs fault you can't use it