RH9 used for about 5 months now..
1. The Package Management system works very well for adding programs in GUI-mode (tho I understand Mdk provide free online offerings that RH would charge for).
2. For productivity, I find the multiple desktops (+ consoles, of course) to be the *great* advance over WinXX. I use ten by default, and something that Gnome?/RH offers that I'd like to know about being available elsewhere, is the way the Workspace Switcher displays. Namely, different icons for the various programs open show on each Workspace, but also their relative window sizings, which makes for quick visual recognition & swapping between Workspaces. Does KDE/Mdk perform like this too? Mdk 8.2 did not, but you may reconvert me ;-)
Cheers
~ Rik
Jason Greenwood wrote:
I thought this might be the case - name recognition only.
Cheers
Jason
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
I picked RedHat as my first distro simply because it was the first one to
come to my attention. I think that would be a symptom of the greater
penetration RedHat has/had.
Robert
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:36 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Distro choice not easy for Windows people...
I couldn't agree more! I understand why people might like RH but I fail to see what it has that Mandrake doesn't...OTOH, I can clearly see what mandrake does that RH does not - namley GUI config tools that work well - and intuitively.
Cheers
Jason
PS, most here know my RH sentiments already but honestly, I'd like to know why someone would use RH OVER Mandrake, support, etc. aside. We're talking home users here...
