Quote Originally Posted by Source View Post
You seem to miss the point of this thread. The point is to help people learn how to do it the more complex way, for example if you don't use a distro that has apt-get or yum. There is no point using apt-get, if you don't have the knowledge to fix something when it goes wrong. This of course applies to all packages, not just teamspeak.

I use apt quite a lot, as I don't want to mess around compiling source or setting things up. But I think its important to have the knowledge.
Its not really doing anything the hard way, just the long way. Uncompressing some files and creating a directory are pretty basic skills. As is creating a user account, sure command line is a better way to set this up but its still not what i would conciser advanced.
If anything it just leaves more room for problems, especially considering your pretty much ignoring any dependency that may occur (handled by apt in debain/ubuntu + others etc) without really helping to solve any.

almost all distros will come with some form of package manager/dependency resolution tool, so seems weird not to use em.