Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 13th Dec 2006 06:02 UTC
DesktopLinux.com's executive editor recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as his home LAN's firewall/router OS. This article chronicles his trials and tribulations as he presses "pure Debian" into service, first as a server and then as a Linux desktop. Read the complete tale here.
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2005-10-12
Its all true, but there are a couple of things which will disoncert the ordinary user. One is menus. If you go with Gnome, there seems to be a Gnome menu, which has (eg) a programming entry, and that has a few things in it. If you then go from the Gnome start icon to the Debian entry, take this down to Programming, you get a different bunch. This sort of thing happens all through. Now everything works and is very stable, but its not exactly integrated, so if you're setting it up for someone, there's a fair amount of configuration. Similarly with printing setup. If you didn't know to start Cups from the browser, not sure how you would come on an easy way to do printers.
None of this bothers the experienced user, but for others, probably Mandriva or PCLinux might be a better choice.