I have to agree. They didn't miss many tricks with Mepis (which is the distribution I run currently, although I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Xandros, Gentoo, pure Debian, and Fedora Core). Straight out of the box, Firefox was set up for all of the popular media types, which impressed me; every other distro had only halfway accomplished this.
Mepis, as Will put, "just works". And is ready for -everyone-. David Jackson Will Hill wrote: >Ready for what? If you mean system administration, no software will ever be >ready. > >Distributions like Mepis, Xandros and Red Hat are more than ready for the >unwashed masses and are easier to maintain. I set up two of my neighbors >almost a year ago with Mepis. Neither have had any problems and both got >exactly what they needed. With a 20 minute install time, even a wipe and >reload is a piece of cake. > >Outside of cutting edge hardware and stubborn multimedia junk, Linux just >works. What more can you ask for? Vendors will get with it soon enough. > > > >
