On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 20:28, Erinn wrote: > > I never really considered Debian to be for more advanced users. I > > installed it just fine back when hamm was current. Granted, the > > installer can use some work, and I hear that boot-floppies is being > > replaced in favor of debian-installer. > > It's not so much that debian is difficult to use, but it doesn't > automatically detect hardware as well as the more commercial, friendlier > distro's. I would say a large portion of the difficulty is in the > installer, which I didn't consider to be that difficult. But I'd also > had time to practice and figure out basic system things while using > Mandrake - fixing some things is not so obvious in debian, especially > when switching from a Windows environment. At the very least, using the > configuration tools in distro's such as Mandrake or RedHat get you more > familiar with locations of certain files and how things are done. This, > of course, could work completely differently for other people. I prefer > to be eased in at some things (although I'd only been using Mandrake > [read: linux] for a couple of months before switching to Debian.) I had > to manually configure a lot of things that I'd never had to do before. > > I'm of the opinion that as long as you are literate and curious, and > maybe have some luck with supported hardware, getting virtually any > distro up and running shouldn't be *that* difficult. It seems as though > once Debian is running, it's virtually effortless. Kind of a reward for > any hard work you might have had to put in. :)
(cringeing when I say it) Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too many times, I made the jump... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
