Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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Why do people still go on about it. Just don't used the distros that still have it, natural selection will kill them off (Which has killed off countless minor distros already). I am using Fedora Core 2. No dependancy hell AT all. Go to
http://www.fedorafaq.org
And learn get all the packages you need. Flash, Java, MP3, you name it, it has it. Also concider using yum rather than apt-get, its a lot more integrated with fedora
GNOME 2.6 is really great too, I switched to it from KDE 3.2 because its so easy to use. In fact, I recommend everyone here to try GNOME 2.6, even if they hated previous versions of GNOME. I am an ex-KDE user literally GNOMEized over night!
As for SuSE, you are using the PROFESSIONAL version, it was DESIGNED for geeks. If you wanted the easy one cd version get the PERSONAL edition.
There ARE easy to use distros out there, but NO. You chose to pick on distros designed for GEEKS and slam them. Hint. Its not their target audience, some people LIKE geek distro. Somebody give this guy a copy of Mandrake or Ark Linux already, or even Fedora Core 2.
If you wanted to talk about REAL usability issues, such as legacy GTK apps that still use the old file dialog then feel free to discuss. No dependancy hell for me since 2001. Thank you to Mandrake, Fedora, Debian and Gentoo which I have used over the years that provide both internet and CD based installs with NO depandancy hell.