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Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared
gmuslera writes "This weekend 2 comparisions were made between latest Fedora, SuSE and Mandrake Linux distributions. The first one was done by FlexBeta and in general goes deep, done by people that seem to know Linux, and good around its 9 pages. The later one was done by The Washington Post (yahoo news link) and shows another view of those 3 distributions, from someone that seems to dislike Linux and don't know enough about it. In what of those extremes are the average new user experience with those distributions?" Update: 07/06 01:01 GMT by T : Note that long-time Washington Post tech writer Rob Pegaroro doesn't seem to dislike Linux -- far from it; he's just writing what he sees as truth.
Fedora buggy, SUSe bloated, Mandrake the way to go?
"It's a clever system. Except -- duh -- there's no graphical front-end to it, forcing users to use a text-only, command-line interface."
Oh God NO!!!! Anything but the command line. I need pretty pictures and maybe a dancing paper clip thingy. It's too much to remember a few commands.
Makes me wonder if this same guy went insane when using Dos.
Wow. Is she single?
Debian is the true winner.
Sig: I stole this sig.
Man this "it's slashdot how dare you say anything bad about Linux - quick - mod him down" crap is driving me nuts.
If by "the majority of users" you mean Linux users you're right. People who have already chosen to use Linux are fine with its quirks and shortcomings. If you're talking about the granny that likes to play solitaire on a windows box you're dead wrong.
Linux/Unix software traditionally does not hold your hand and does not configure easily. Have you ever had to hand edit a config file XWindows, Samba, or Sendmail?
DOS was crap. Windows was more suited to GUI work like creating word processing windows but the real reason it took off is that you could stumble your way around the system, launch applications, multitask etc. by stumbling around and clicking on very obvious graphical controls. For most software, and certainly for the desktop, you did not need to know much about config files or learn lots of DOS or Linux commands. You didn't need to know about man and info commands to get help. If there was help to be had you saw it on a menu - right there in your face.
Mod me down all you damn well like. Call me a troll if you prefer. It doesn't change reality, and I don't post here for the mod points. Linux developers and hard core advocates need to take their hands off their ears and stop singing "La la la" at the top of their lungs and listen to what the rest of the world wants. What they don't want is weeks, months or years of experience or learning to do something they can stumble their way through in a few clicks in windows. They have better things to do with their time than learn about computers. They just want the damned thing to work.
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