I’ve been installing a new PC (for my mother) together with my father.

While the overall install process was okay, and the installer itself was really good (apart from the difficulties of partitioning for a machine that will mostly be used with windows)

Installing packages was different. A lot of packages ask dozens of questions, often even for me hard to understand. The most annoying package was xfree.

Xfree really asks too many questions. How many users do really need to set nodeadkeys, for example? Those not capable of editing the config file will probably run either KDE or Gnome, both of which allow this kind of customization in their menus. In short: xfree configuration sucks.

Similar things apply to other packages. Why the hell ask all this, if 99% of users will stick with the defaults and 99% of the rest will edit the configuration file anyway?