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Re: My PCLinuxOS experience
de Mark, AKA El Gee 01/18/2007 03:42
Bill <res00351@verizon.net> wrote in news:qiCrh.6901$32.3014@trndny09:
> Yrrah <Yrrah.YrrahYrrah.Yrrah@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>>As things stand now Linux is not a serious competitor. It's only for
>>hobbyists who like to play with an OS, I don't. If the Linux community
>>does not get their act together and develop a good and reliable Linux
>>GUI and stop this distribution shit with dozens or hundreds
>>automatically installed unwanted programs, Linux will remain something
>>for the sectarians only.
>>
>>I've given up on Linux for now, after having tried for a few weeks.
>>Back to Window$ :-(
>
> Don't let a bad experience throw you off linux entirely.
> Microsoft spends millions on usuability testing and no
> open source project is going to be able to match that.
> That doesn't mean all linux distros are equal - they
> aren't.
>
> My pick is SimplyMEPIS -> http://www.mepis.org/
> You can run it off a bootable CD without messing
> with your existing Windows setup.
>
> I've tried a lot of linux and *BSD distros and
> SimplyMEPIS is the only one that I've found that
> has always worked, right out of the box.
>
If I were to have let a bad Linux experience thwart me, I woul have
given up...10 years ago. Instead, I acquired distro after distro until
I found what I liked, then I kept looking. I STARTED with Slackware
(that was fun!), then Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Xandros,
Linspire/Lindows, PCLinuxOS, Vector, then all the variants of them. I
used Live CD's when I could to test, when I couldn't, I would install
them on older boxen at work. About 2 years ago I found Ubuntu and while
it was far from perfect...it was the one for me. I am currently very
happy with it, although I am itching to give Dream Linux a shot on a
good piece of hardware. I have installed it on a P III laptop and it
runs pretty good, but I need to test its claims of multimedia supremacy
:)
Using Linux is like an explorer adventuring around the globe. He is
going to run into snags...does he go back to the king and tell him that
"The world beyond, $Our_Land is jsut cruddy...I am staying here!"...no
he keeps going. If you given up after a failed attempt or 3, you ain't
never gonna get far in life. I got a great wife this time around
because I did not give up after I got divorced...
JMHO / YMMV
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