Hallo to all : -
I tried all the ones Steve calls "newbie-friendly", leaving Debian to
last because of its difficult image. I'd have settled with some of the
others if there'd been less of the graphics widgedoze
let-me-take-you-over about them. So I was stuck with having to get into
Debian and even from a DOS-only background its not been a bit easy,
especially because I didn't find anything like a users' list group,
maybe didn't look correctly. I still feel its been worth all the
effort and am able to live in frugal stability while making progress
all the time - quite like DOS in a way but I do miss any equivalent
of all the pre-W95 paper manuals that Microsoft used so generously to
point towards the better class of skip for our attention, "Joe" being
too busy to take them home and use them.
Pat
On 27 Jan, Steve wrote:
> This isn't the kind of stuff "Joe" needs to know.
> What he needs to know is that distributions generally
> referred to as "newbie-friendly" are Mandrake, SuSE,
> and RedHat (and sometimes people remember to that
> Caldera was a contender too).
> Joe also needs to know that distributions like
> Slackware and Debian are the exact opposite.
> Joe doesn't need to know all the little details of
> how the first group differs from the second group,
> he only needs to decide how high a frustration curve
> he's willing to climb. ;-)
>
> - Steve
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