Well having installed a fair few Windows, a few OS/2s and even a coupla Macs in my time, as well as Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware and SLS, I would have to say that Mandrake and Red Hat can install a lot easier than most Windows.
Of course, once you factor in the inevitable partitioning - inevitable because most people have got Windows already on their computer - it does get a little bit more difficult - but you don't need to remember a serial number, and you're given a lot more choice of just where to place it. Just my 0.02c - and that's inflation for you! Wesley Parish On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:37, you wrote: > 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. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
