< top posting on purpose (: > I can't understand the logic of the my distro is better than your distro crowd - after all, it's all linux underneath. You can go to www.kernel.org, download the relevant source, and build your own kernel. All you need is the right toolkit ( from gnu.org ), and away you go. All it is after that is packaging. The jibes about rpm being better than dpkg are relevant to (I expect) less than 1% of users, who require the really advanced stuff that general linux desktop users will never touch. To all intents and purposes, they, and the tools built on them perform the same function - to keep your packages and your distro up to date, and provide a simple method for adding functionality to your machine.
So what's the difference between the distros? Packaging, choice of packages ( and the politics involved ), and the power of the intended machine... can't really think of any others. Personally I have been really badly bitten by all of the common ones with the exception of slackware - which is a bit too BSD'esque for most linux users. Personally, I see 2 types of linux users: those who prefer Gnome, and those wayward souls who are KDE oriented (^: And, of course sad old g*ts like me who're just as happy using a textual interface, but we're just dinosaurs. I'll make a stab at suggesting ways forward that are fairly distro free - like in this example where there's an X problem. Volker added in similar suggestions about how it could have happened. Also distro neutral ( as well as specific stuff, I hasten to add ). I know I'm not worth talking to until my first coffee in the morning, and I try to refrain from posting until I have done so - usually succeed. I wish that some others would act the same way, as this list is getting so bad tempered that I'm sure we're driving a fair proportion of listers away ( any stats on that Zane? ). One thing that I do take exception to are those who seem to use this list as an alternative to google, or even basic thought. Is this what's started hacking others off? Or is it the medium? Should we be looking towards a forum instead? Just my $0.02, Steve On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:04:13 +1300 Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know who the troll was that said this: > > > Choose a better-supported distro, and more people can help, more often. > > My experience is the exact opposite; people on this list have been extremely > helpful to me regarding Suse and other matters too. And so what if it takes > a while to solve a problem, the longer it takes the more I learn. With your > logic I would stay with windows as I think it is now the most widely used > operating system. It begs the question: why are you here at all on this > list, surely by you logic you should only visit M$ lists. But maybe you are > just a bad old troll. Watch out or a Billy Goat Gruff will give you your > comeuppance one day :-) I choose to have Linux on one computer and XP on two > others. I could quite easily have XP on all three, but I choose to have Suse > on one, largely because it gives me the opportunity to exercise my brain and > be learning something different. As the saying goes: "use it or lose it"! > Playing with Linux also helps me to be able to relate to a wider range of > people something that maybe you need to learn to do. > > Reg >
