On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:14:03 -0700 "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Debian stable has a lot of value and serves many > important purposes, but being a showcase for a nice up-to-date Linux > desktop is not one of them. > > -- > Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA I do agree with that, but... I'm sorry to say, but in my experience so far, the only distro that makes a good impression to newcomers (from the windoze world) is Xandros. My brother had that installed and I tried to convince him to switch away from the dark side and try Kubuntu. It would freeze somewhere in the middle of loading KDE, live or installed! And when I tried to disable X and start gradually, I hit upon the sudo setup typical to (K)Ubuntu, which I had no idea about, so I had to give up. Back home I installed it on my laptop. After a month Kubuntu's / partition made a nice /home for my unstable when I needed more space ;) and my brother is still using Xandros :( My point is, if you're willing (or even like) to tinker with your computer start with stable and gradually move up to testing or unstable. If not, I have to recommend Xandros :( (K)Ubuntu is trying to be a friendly and stable distro, but it is not as newcomer friendly as Xandros and not as stable as Debian. Just my 0.02 RON Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
