[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Mon Mar 8 17:21:26 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:43, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I'm obviously wasting my time, then, as I'm looking for a distro to
> recommend to students. With Debian we'd end up spending half the course
> getting the hardware working.

Well, if they're computing students, surely the experience of having to
actually work through a real computing problem is of value.

The big problem with all the clicky distros is the people using them
simply don't have a clue about how to even start fixing problems.

"I can't start X, I'd best reinstall Mandrake."

Regards
-- 
Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/
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