Mandrake Clarifies its Future

fabiolrs writes "Mandrake Linux has an article in response to the message they sent on march 11th. They claim that because of user help they are "cash-flow positive"! That is great news since Linux community is now sure it will continue using one of the nicest distros available!"

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Mandrake is too Windowsish

[fireboy1919]

I love the fact that Mandrake has worked hard to improve usability, and that their install is easier than the one for Windows ME. I've used 7.2, 8.0, and I'm currently using 8.1.

It wasn't until recently that I found out that most distros don't require a reformat to have a successful upgrade, and that usually you don't have to worry about most packages not working correctly out of the box like Mandrake's.

Even when I work hard to fix Mandrake's problems, there are a lot of packages that haven't worked. I have yet to get one PCI card to install using harddrake, and urpmi stopped working about four months ago, and no amount of work has made it work again. Also, in the latest installment, for some reason, neither Kudzu nor sndconfig work as well as they have in the past.

What do I mean by too Windowsish? Too buggy! They spend so much time making it look nice, and little time on ensuring that everything works as it should (just like Windows does). I think they're doing it so that they can seem to be the flashiest - flashy like Windows. "Does the distro you're trying to use have the latest, greatest version of product X? Mandrake does."

I'm sick of Mandrake and all its crap. They've made a convert out of me - a convert to another distro.