<personal story>
        I hate Windows (1995-now)
        so
        I start to get interested in Linux. (1997)
        but
        I don't have the adequate attitude/knowledge (1998. Debian 2.0 install 
ok but problems with Winblows, still needed at the time).
        I keep on trying (1999. RedHat, but flakey electrical installation make 
lots of kernel panics. W9X simply crashes a lot).
        I solve the electricity issue. Corel stinks (2000)
        I go to a basic course of Linux (I learn Slackware).

        I return to home, and I think about what distro do I choose.
</personal story>
<reasons>

        I am Catalan, and Mandrake is the best Catalanised distro. Here we have 
to defend our language _every day_.
        But I think and think and I decide Debian is the only solution for me 
and to work for: 
        
        freedom. I agree 100% on the main/contrib/non-free model.
        
        Frankly speaking if Debian was not the technically best Linux distro in 
the world, I wouldn't care and I'd continue with it, only for the political 
reasons. Debian can be Catalanised, but I don't think Mandrake can transform in 
a non-profit organisation.

        About the technical reasons, I like Debian because

        -Very flexible: from 386 to PIIIII.
        -Stable. 0 undocumented crashes.
        -Honesty (unstable/stable branches) 
        -A thing that I hate and it's very common today it's that you can get 
your work done easily but loosing flexibility. But because the program is bad 
made, if you run into a problem... Good luck! Of course, Debian is 'harder, but 
safer'. The ocasionally really easy stuff like pppconfig works... And no more 
headaches.
        -debian lists. debian-user is my #1 solution provider (by reading 
archives 90% of the times).

        Sure I miss something, but...

        Hope it's interesting,


        Ignasi

P.S. Ah, I missed something.

</reasons>

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