Chris Lale wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote:This is one of the beauties of the newer Debian releases. You don't have to configure everything through the use of .conf files, but they are still there, and you can use them if you have the desire or need. I've never seen a system, and mind you I haven't tried the distro where you must compile the entire system, that gives so much flexibility and opportunity to learn.
William Ballard wrote:
I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for a friend of mine who is about as computer illiterate as anyone I've ever seen. He'd had his computer for 6 years and didn't know how to copy and paste in Windows or use Explorer to look around inside the system when I first met him less than a year ago. He was scared stiff of the thing.
I built him a sarge box a couple of months after his Win98 machine had been hacked for the 4th time. He's as happy as a clam with this thing. He's actually excited about learning about his computer for the first time in his life. I've walked him through making changes to his system by editing .conf files over the phone, walked him through the CUPS setup and how to administer his printer, and a few other things. He likes seeing these things and understanding how they change his system. It's changed his attitude towards computing in general because it's no longer a "black box".
... and now in Sarge he might not need even to edit .conf files directly because of configure-debian and synaptic + libgnome2-perl.
Chris.
I'm a relative newcomer to computing. I'd never even put my hands on a computer until 3 years ago, and then I ran Win98 for more than a year. I've got a long way to go before I really consider myself to be really proficient in Debian, but I have only run into one problem so far that I haven't been at able to figure out, well, other than things like kernel bugs, and from my reading of mailing lists it seems that integrating Samba into an AD environment isn't all that easy. Some of the problems do take me hours of research, but I like the research too. It always opens new areas of understanding to me besides what I'm looking for just at the moment.
The other thing I will say for Debian is that I seem to understand it on a much more intuitive level than I did RedHat or Mandrake too. I never did get those two OS's to run the way I would have liked them to, and rpm compared to apt is like night compared to day.
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