On Tuesday 12 September 2006 19:23, Pushparajan V wrote: > I dont know why guys asks this silly questions.. The best distro for > desktop too depends on the choice of the user. a distro becomes best > when it solves his/her particular problem. The best way to select the > top OS is by reading from reviews given by many users world wide on > internet..
Excellent paragraph, but unnecessarily marked with adjectives.. Anyway.. I just want to add that switching distro. has a cost in terms of relearning.. Sadly not many linux distros are compatible with each other in terms of user experience. That may be to differentiate themselves from others but it definitely causes confusion for newbies.. Quickly how do you configure network without resorting to command line. Watch for 100 answers that are all correct.. > you can always check out the most downloaded distro from, > > www.distrowatch.com No. of downloads really doesn't matter.. I would rate your own experience the highest.. > and many other websites similar to these. > > Personally, i like fedora because i started with it and it had all > developer tools without need for downloading from internet. > > Never used debian. But many like it. > > The best on desktop is ubuntu. But you must have a internet connection > to get new softwares.. That is true for all the distros. You can stick to any distro., get a full CD set and you may get almost everything you need.. Fedora is good if it works for you and OP.. Stick to it. Either one can relearn a new distro. or get tv tuner card working under the same distro.. It is upto the individual case where the efforts are minimal.. Shridhar P.S. I hate Grub.. I installed opensolaris on a spare harddisk and it changed the disk order in BIOS so that it boots off the opensolaris disk. It has no business doing that.. I just couldn't get it to work with lilo since.. It could have driven out a newbie nuts.. Certainly it did to me.. I wish distros would not upgrade unless the current thing is broken.. I guess that is why I use slackware.. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
