Just a quick note from a fairly fresh out of windows newbie (well, about 6 months).
The reason why I think Mandrake is ready for prime time? I'm currently running a cooker install. My friend serving as my primary "tech support" walked me through setting up such, and didn't explain it to me. I actually learned what exactly that meant here on the list. I'm very impressed that my computer is running much better, and much happier on an unstable release like cooker, than it was while she was still running windows. Also the fact that most everything I've needed to get rolling, I've been able to mostly figure out using google, or asking you guys here on the list. My friend who's serving as "tech support" is mostly used for "Frell, what did I mess up on my computer this time?!" problems where for whatever reason, the computer doesn't continue to work correctly. That's happened maybe twice, at most three times, since I installed mandrake. The first of which was totally my fault, the most recent, we figure was due to cooker doing something funny. Also, the man pages are great. Once I learned how to read them without having to use the console window, I was a very very happy person. ^_^ Thanks to you guys on the list here for the trick of reading them using Konqueror (for those of you not familiar with this trick, you put man:/command into the address bar). I've been running an exclusively Mandrake box since I did the install back in May, and I'm proud to say, my computer is running a bajillion times better than my dad's XP piece of dren. He's infected with everything under the sun, and I think I've got him sold on letting me install Mandrake on his box for him... however, he wants me to get a new job before he'll let me do that for him. I figure if a newbie is more happy with an unstable release of mandrake than a "stable" release of windows, that's certainly got to say something big. ^_^ ~~ >^..^< ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ >^..^< ~~ http://deathkitten.net "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling "Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failureâa second timeâto count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me." ~Greg Palast
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