Michael Mol wrote:
Never used OpenSuse, but I've spent about ten years bouncing between
Ubuntu and Debian. (I started using Ubuntu around either 5.04 or 6.06.
Not sure.) While Ubuntu is usually among the first of the binary
distros to support new things, it's been suffering more and more (and
more!) decay when you wander off the beaten path. Over the last couple
years, it's tended toward beating its own path, so knowledge and
skills are becoming less portable if you're bouncing between Ubuntu
and other distros, or even between Ubuntu and Debian. It's nice if you
want something up and running fast, it's friendly to newbies, and it's
friendly to some kinds of administrators, but it's *not* friendly to
power users.
I think this will suite my brother tho. They check email, weather and
the news and my sis-n-law plays games on facebook. They both play card
games which Linux has quite a few of. So, this is really what they
need. Of course, if I find something better, I can backup the /home
directory and install something else then restore the /home and carry on
with something new.
This is the beauty of Linux.
If I copy the WHOLE .mozilla directory from winders to Linux, won't that
keep all their settings, passwords, bookmarks and email? I have done
that on Linux a couple times with little problems. I'm just not sure
about winders to Linux.
Thanks. Ya'll gave me some good ideas for both now and in the future if
I need to try something else.
Dale
:-) :-)
