On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:37:25AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Tom Massey"> > > > Well, Mandrake you can install by clicking [OK] a couple of times. Debian > > you generally have to actually use the keyboard a little. Once installed, > > you can pretty much configure Mandrake entirely with a mouse, Debian tends > > to prefer keyboard here again. Please don't say at this point that the > > command line is a more powerful interface than mouse clicking > > I won't, because by and large, the Debian installation does not require the > use of the command line. Ah yes, it is certainly in character mode, and > requires manipulation of the language-driven (as opposed to visually driven) > article of hardware known as the 'keyboard', but it is certainly not > "command line".
Ah true. I don't think I said that a Debian install required the command line per se, just that you couldn't click [OK] a few times to complete the install - you often have to type stuff as well, in my experience. Basic point being that a Mandrake install is likely to be a more familiar experience to new users who've used Windows, than a Debian install. Unless they've played with a lot of old MS-DOS apps, with that blue background and so on. That always gives me flashbacks to WordPerfect 5.2. > > I agree with that, but new users coming from Windows, as many probably > > will be, will disagree. Mandrake eases new > > *That's* where you start to make sense, but not based on your aforementioned > reasoning. Mandrake is slick, beautiful, designed for desktop use on modern > hardware, and shows off Free Software at its best. That's what makes Windows > users intrigued, and perhaps comfortable. Dear me, I spent *hours* on that pool analogy in the hopes of being featured on distrowatch.com or similar and there you go wiping it out with a couple ^Hs ;-). Yes, Mandrake is very slick. And they tend to GPL their slickness, which is nice. Please note that this email comes to you via a Debian box that most likely wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for Mandrake 5.2 (or whatever it was). Still occasionally feel the need to wave the flag a little. <Puffs on cigar, feels vaguely like an Agatha Christie colonel> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
