Re:debian (Score 1)

I hope that they help create a better interface to dselect so that it is much friendlier. If that obstacle were overcome, I think more would switch to debian.

This is already being worked on and to a large extent has already been improved. The new interface to a Debian system is called apt. It has some absolutely wonderful features and is not particularly hard to use.

you can just say

apt-get install [some_package]

and apt will figure out if you need any other packages installed to run this one and install them all together. If a package needs another package installed and configured before it can be installed, apt sorts that out too. if packages can't be used together and you ask it to install a "conflicting" package, it will suggest removing the conflicting package, or cancelling the operation. NICE :-)

Give it a try, you just might like it.