Hi all! I hope this is the right mailing list to send this mail to; I tried to find the accurate one.
I am relatively new to Linux, specifically to the Mandrake distribution. >From what I have gathered so far about Mandrake, it has a strong aim at beeing user-friendly and makes such bald statements as beeing the "Best OS for the novice and expert". So far some of what I have seen is quite user-friendly in my eyes, eg. the installation was very clear and non-obfuscated, and the autoconfiguring of window managers is really good. But best of all is the Mandrake control central, which I view as the real key to Mandrake's future. I have not yet tried the "download/install new program"-system, which I've heard should be [quite] automated with features such as automatic dependency analysis & download/install. But: yesterday I wanted to access my old 4GB harddrive, which contain an installation of Windows XP and is in ntfs file system format. I put it in the computer and checked that BIOS found my harddrive and all was clear; naively I though "Mandrake will auto-configure my new hard drive". Sadly, this wasn't the case. I had to read through 'mount' documentationand hey - I am back in RedHat Linux, which was the previous Linux dist I used and didn't like because of the *giant* load of administrative work I had to perform just to install a single program, for example. Shouldn't an OS claiming "user-friendliness" auto configure new hard drives installed in the system? Or am I doing something wrong, perhaps the Control Center can help me out? If this is the case, please give me a pointer, and I apologize for taking up your time. See you, /Olof
