On Monday 10 November 2003 18:03, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >While Debian supplies tools for all of these, and while mostly techincally
> >superior, in terms of user-friendliness these are usually inferior to
> > tools provided by other distributions.
>
> Can you please qualify your last statement?
> I don't see where your claims regarding Debian
> come from
While not an avid Debian user I've played with it several times and compared
to other more desktop and newbie oriented distros (Mandrake comes to mind)
its hardware support tools are a joke. try Harddrake if you need the counter
point.
Besides, you stated yourself that the hardware configuration it problematic in
installation. it didn't became great afterwards - the missing tools are still
missing.
As for software, apt is a very good software managment solution but very far
from being friendly to noobs. synaptic and other frontends do a good job once
you have everything configured, but managing sources is still a pain.
> Except for the "replacing graphical card", which I am yet to see a
> newbie do by themselves
While not common, I have seen wierder things happen :-) a friend of mine which
is a sensible person but a far cry from being a computer freak has saved her
music collection from her USB harddrive that was trashed by windows using a
linux live cd, and it was the first time she ever booted linux.
--
Oded
::..
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Don't try it 'til you've knocked it.
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