[Sussex] New & fairly incompetent Linux user

[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Paul Baines wrote:

> Mandrake - Good for Linux-virgins as it has lots of nice GUI's and can
> do lots for you but a bit restrictive and cumbersome once you know
> what you are doing. (Particularly unimpressed by most of the Mandrake
> Control Centre progs). So, I want a change...

Yes, it's useless...

> Debian - Awe-inspiring, seems to be the holy-grail to most Linux
> enthusiasts that I've spoken to. But needs a decent web-connection i
> think?

"You think?" - Nope. You can get a 13-CD set of Sarge.

> Red Hat - Linux people doing their best to immitate Microsoft.

You really mean Fedora here. Like Mandrake, it's shite.

> SuSe - Not really sure about this one, not met any users but seems
> fairly popular...

Yes, it was ok from SuSE 6.4 -> 7.1, but got silly afterwards. It allows much
more freedom than the other RPM-based distros.

> Gentoo - Bit quirky, used by the bloke who introduced me to Linux but
> again I'd appreciate any info...

I wouldn't recommend this to a novice.

> Knoppix - Good for diagnostics. Thats it.

And even then, that's pushing it. It's good for people to ogle at and say
"Wow, Linux" -- but if you use Knoppix, you should just use Debian.

> Any others?

Plenty, and I am not about to list them here.

-- Thomas Adam

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