strangely there a number of reviews about that say distros like
mandrake have easier installs than XP.

I certainly find gentoo an easier install to get _working_ than any
version of windows, but i'm not a newbie. (tongue in cheek only
slightly)

seriously though Chris, did you find mandrake that hard?

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:25:38+1200 Chris
Wilkinson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Peter Elliott wrote:
> > 
> > his only caveat was that the installation might be beyond
>  > the capabilities of some listeners (this is true...<snip>
> 
> Yes it is true. Some distros have an installation that makes
> climbing K2 seem like a picnic! A linux distro that is simplified
> massively just for home use is urgently required to capitalise
> on the current doubt people must feel about Windows.
> 
> Distributors should be keeping an ISO of 'simpler' distros like
> Lycoris or Lindows, rather than keeping just the biggies like
> RH, MDK, DEB, etc...
> 
> That way a bigger demographic of people could get hold of a
> copy of a friendlier distro...
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
> 
> 


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