Mike Cherba wrote,
>My results were kind of wonky, When I took the RPM route, which I have
>to for work, it pointed me to Mandriva which I don't like. For the .deb
>route, which has rapidly become my personal preference, it got Ubuntu
>and Kubuntu backwards, but was much more reasonable.
>
>On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:35 -0800, John Schmidt wrote:
>> I really like the tool. Very nicely done (and I learned something from
>> it!). Also very wise and reassuring since it told me to use suse or
>> fedoracore4 and I happen to be a fedora core4 bigot.
I don't usually take these tests, but I took this one just to see what
would happen. Of course it told me I should be using Slackware, and it
also suggested Gentoo.
I wasn't at all surprised by the result. As I was answering the questions,
it occurred to me that I was biasing the outcome by choosing the
characteristics of the distribution I'm already using. I suspect it'll be
the same way for most of us on this list...we'll all choose, whether
consciously or otherwise, the traits of the distribution we've already
decided we like, and therefore the test will inevitably direct us straight
back to what we've already chosen (assuming our perceptions of our favorite
distributions match the perceptions of the person who wrote the test).
It might be interesting to see what the test would do for a newcomer to
Linux, who hasn't already picked a favorite distribution. (Would the test
even make sense to such a person?)
- Neil Parker
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