--- In [email protected], Joe Takacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have been a forum member since 2003, a lifelong windoze user and cut
> my teeth back in the DOS days. I am still pretty comfortable with the
> DOS command line.
>
> I have been strongly considering going to Linux for a while, but
> "testimonials" like this give me second thoughts.
>
> While windoze is certainly not without problems, it does "just work"
(at
> least for me).
>
> Which is the best Linux distro that "just works" without a lot of
hassle?
>
Hey, I'm fairly limited skill-wise too, and need distros that "just
work". The only ("only", he says) thing that typically affects a
Linux distro "just working" or not is video hardware compatibilty
issues. The first three distros I try on any reasonably modern
machine (1GHz or better CPU, 512+MB RAM) are: SimplyMEPIS 7.0 (6.5 is
still pretty good also), Mandriva 2008, and PCLinuxOS. For more
limited machines, SAM Linux, Zenwalk, and Vector 5.9 (or 5.8). I'd be
willing to try OpenSUSE again, had I a machine needing reinstallation
-- my objections to OpenSUSE were purely aesthetic, which I now know
how to tweak. CentOS isn't bad, a lot of the professionals I've met
at user-group meetings use it, I find it a little too demanding (and
therefore slow-running) for the hardware I have available to me
personally.
I don't like Ubuntu's "root-user-less" security setup. It
perpetuates bad Windows practice of user=admin, no matter how they try
to spin their methodology as being A Good Thing. Also, I've had a
situation where logging in as root was the ONLY way I could get the
GUI (KDE) running, because .kde config files in my /home were
seriously screwed, the whole /home partition was screwed, and /root
(i.e. root-user's private home directory) is placed with other system
directories in system root (and therefore in the system's disk
partition) instead of within the /home hierarchy. /root provided me
with a virgin default set of .kde configs to revert to.
Granted, with your DOS experience, you may not be so dependent on
working GUI as I am....
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