Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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>>"Eugenia: I saw that you've post some on the Gentoo mail list. Have you made a review of Gentoo? Is it possible to get one? Maybe not from a user friendly perspective,
but as the distro maintenance and speed overall."
Actually she could do a review of Gentoo and focus on user friendliness as long as the wrote the review at the level of Gentoo's intended user base.
Gentoo targets knowledgeable power users who don't expect or require GUIs and automatic configuration for everything. Other distros, such as Lycoris, target a completely different user base.
A review of Gentoo's user friendliness would focus on things like Gentoo's excellent scripts and documentation and the fine degree of control Gentoo gives its users (you can guess how I'd review Gentoo based on that statement).
A review of Lycoris' user friendliness would focus on other things entirely. The things that make Gentoo a wonderful distro for the users it targets would make Lycoris a disaster for its target, and vice versa.
The user friendliness of a given tool should always be assessed in the context of what it's intended to do and for whom.