On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 [email protected] wrote: > OK, folks, > > You've made up my mind - my son's laptop is going linux. He's the right > age for it, I have the sneaking suspicion there are linux distribs that > suck less and I'm long since tired of dicking about with his Win7 beta > that just wants to reboot all the time.
Unfair - maybe the distribution version is a lot better than the beta? > So, the question is: what is the best linux distribution for home use? > > And who but this cloud of mad hatters could be better to ask? > > I warn you all, though. If I take your advice and have to spend six > hours mucking about with display drivers to make the windowing interface > work (as I have with every linux distribution I've every loaded) I'm > going to be spamming you all with every g-d-forsaken error message it > throws up... > > -thanks (maybe) in advance, I have used a lot of Red Hat (now Fedora) distros over the last 10 years, and I can't remember ever having to dick about with display drivers. This isn't like Windows. Things just work. And the Fedora 11 that I installed most recently, asked me two questions. Where are you (UK) and what sort of keyboard do you have (UK). I was quite annoyed that it didn't ask me about networking, until I discovered that it didn't ask me because it was able to workout for itself that it could see an ethernet interface, and a network, and what the IP address should be, and all the stuff like that, without having to ask me! _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
