Anthony Campbell wrote: > This expresses very well what it is that attracted me to Debian in the > first place. I came to it via Slackware and then RedHat. As a complete > newbie I could never manage to install any new packages on Slackware; > RedHat was a lot better but too often I found that rpm packages were broken > or turned out to demand libraries etc. that I didn't have and didn't know > where to look for. Once I got used to the Debian way of doing things, I > liked it better. > > I suppose I should add that I came to Linux itself from DOS, not Windows, > so I suppose I was already accustomed to the idea of a CLI. I'd been using > 4DOS for years and, as I know realize, this has a lot of Unix features > built into it, so Linux wasn't as much of a culture shock as it might have > been.
I agree completely about Debian install - it is very useful, a valuable learning experience that you do not get nowadays, thanks to everyone (including it seems now most in the Linux arena) trying to imitate another well-known operating system which hides what's going on behind graphics. I came to Debian having used Suse, RedHat and Caldera (how glad I am I tried Debs!) - and after spening years using MS Windows. I even worked for a time on Tech Support for a large manufacturer and spend almost every day trying to solve someone's problem with that operating system. What a relief to move to Linux. Surely we need the learning experience that Linux provides; surely that is one of its great strengths - that we can figure things out, and fix them, and often need to fix them because there is no tech support. We are getting more and people who just use computers and not only know nothing about them but who are afraid of tinkering about, of looking under the hood.. Godric
