> Dan Treacy has been highly edited and taken completely out
> context by myself and said:
> ....Please don't get me wrong a lot of what I'm saying
> is generalisation I realise Debian doesn't exclude newbies
> anymore than RedHat or the other RPM based distros. But to a
> newbie perception is everything....
Funny you should say. As a complete newbie to Linux (and
someone discouraged from "shelling out" from Universe to
Unix at work <g> - "A little knowledge..." and all that),
but one who was told by his boss "Yeah, whatever" when
he asked if he could install Linux on one of the spare PC's
at work "just to muck around with", I wasn't sure what to do.
It was "perception" that had me buy (or rather, work) Redhat
Linux 7 Deluxe Workstation, as it (Redhat) was suppose to be
the most userfriendly for newbies (just picked this idea up
here and there around the web, on some of the many
Linux-orinented sites around).
Purely perception, and I had to take make a choice sometime.
Someone tell me on done good, puleeeeeeeze.
As a longtime Windows-user of all flavours (I'm aware of the
silent "l" :-) ) I'm very much looking forward to the learning
curve.
I dare say, once some familiarity is reached, I'll be on
here asking questions like "so what's the difference
between [Distro x] and [Distro y]?".
Been enjoying everything so far though. Enlightening, and, I
predict, soon to be very helpful.
Cheers
Marc
Sydney
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