[Roboprog]

I've read that before. To be honest, it seems kind of whiny.

If what you are using is in a mature (not likely a field of research) domain, then yes, just click on install.exe and grunt (click) at [Next] once or twice, or on *nix go to Debian/Ubuntu style package manager and click on "install that" (and all its dependencies). BUT, if what you are doing is research that involves some newer tools, you might have to get a little bit dirty.

Maybe we can have a discussion about "dialog box bullshittery" (or registry bullshittery)? And how if you are stuck in that tar pit, there is no easy way out such as rolling up a tar of several packages which includes a top level "install.sh" script. You simply have to include the instructions of all the dialogs in a sequence and all the arcane buttons, checkboxes and radio buttons to be selected "just so", of you're SOL.

Yeah, cry me a river about the mean old command line.

There's some interesting comments in the "anti-forward" of the Unix Hater's Handbook suggesting that the "former prisoners" offer some commentary about the "facilities" to which they have been reassigned. ... "a system whose content and tone are set by Sonic the Hedgehog" indeed :-)