On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Robert Fisher <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nick, you can also claim to have introduced me (and several others) to > Gentoo and MythTV. > I think your first install was redhat in your lounge, somewhere you were living temporarily while building. Ethernet cables all over the place, wife unhappy with mess. Gentoo came later, but I can't say I use it now. Too fussy. I just use *buntu and mint now. Mythtv and XBMC are the only places I get my hands really dirty. Otherwise mint is a pretty good desktop with plenty of bells and whistles. > > Although this List/Group gets quiet sometimes it certainly has helped many > like me over the years. > > I think Mr Sawtell was right when he said a few years back that installfests aren't needed much because installing is so easy now. Same goes for a lot of everyday software. Now installing something like mythtv is something that could profit from an installfest. It has a lot of traps for the unwary. One thing that used to come up regularly was modems. Now most people don't use the pesky things, connecting to the net is a matter of connecting via ethernet to your ISP provided router. Even wifi works almost all the time now. Automatic hardware detection has done a lot for ease of use too. It started when PCI replaced ISA - the ISA bus didn't tell you much about hardware (refer back to modem discussion!) Standardised hardware also helps, practically every modern motherboard has built in audio which all seems very standard, Other technology advances have made things easier too. Getting computer video out to a TV used to be hard work involving a specialised composite out video card. Now every TV and every motherboard/graphics card have HDMI, plug and play for the most part. So yeah I think most questions to this list are about things that remain essentially unixy, like scripting, specialised commands, etc.
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