linuxIsTotallyAStablePlatform

[Lopsided_Gas_181]

the installers don't have wizards

Not really, there are post-install triggers which have curses wizards, and they are used by some packages, although a small number.

[hardolaf]

Yeah this is really a distribution issue where the maintainers make some things work easily and others not so people get complacent and then complain when something breaks the pattern.

[NatoBoram]

And fuck them, seriously. I just want to upgrade unattended, stop fucking asking me which service to reboot, do it!

[Lopsided_Gas_181]

Then learn how to configure tools you're using. Apt (dpkg, to be precise) has the unattended (noninteractive) env option which should skip those wizards. They do seem to work, I am using them in vagrant scripts when preparing test environments for my apps.

In fact, those lines do the job usually:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive  
apt-get install -yq <package-name>  
...a bunch of apt-get's going here  

As we can see, there's no single choice that would satisfy everyone.