On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > My point was how Mandrake is focused on making everything as easy as > possible to install and use -- so it's possible for the "average Joe" > to go to Best Buy, or any other store that sells Mandrake, buy a box, > take it home, install it quickly and easily, and sit down and do > something productive, like writing, or working with Gimp, or any of a > million other things people use computers to do so they can make a > living -- or any of a million other things people do for hobbies. > > This is NOT one of Debian's strengths.
Should it be? I can understand a desire to ease the installation process. However, I for one feel it is tremendously benificial for a user to understand how their system works. That is of course, unless they are not the one maintaining it. In which case, I don't feel they should be the one configuring it. > I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new > to Linux, but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, > or are they just at the "user" (or just above) level? Many of the people I've introduced to Debian are new to Linux in general. > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the > installer is so bare bones. Pretty sure you've nailed it there. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
