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Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users
Lucas123 writes "Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu Linux desktops may look alike, but they've got some important distinctions, like the fact that Fedora and Ubuntu use GNOME 2.28 (the latest version) for their default desktop, while openSUSE uses KDE 4.3.1. And, Fedora's designers have assumed that its users are wiser than the general run of users. 'For example, in earlier versions, ordinary (non-admin) users could install software on Fedora without access to the root password. As of this version, however, local users will need to enter the root password before they can install software (as they do on almost all other Linux distributions).'"
Linux From Scratch and Gentoo users > Ubuntu and Fedora users. When something breaks on your Linux system and you don't know how to fix it, guess which one you'd rather hear from? A LFS user, or someone who uses Ubuntu because he's scared of the command line? Yeah, that's what I thought. Pwnd.
you must be new here, people on a site with a heavy slant slant towards open source issues' are pretty well aware of the very basics of the top three linux distros
Considering the LFS user is most likely to have an attitude like yours, I'd prefer not to hear a single condescending word from him.
That's right. No user should ever be more skilled than any other users, and all distributions should cater to the newbie crowd. When all computing grinds to a halt because no one knows how to fix or maintain them anymore, at least you'll have the comfort of knowing that no advanced users are going to make a tongue-in-cheek post on Slashdot that stimulates your inferiority complex. Then and only then will everything be alright because everything revolves around you and what you think is appropriate, you arbiter of correctness you!
Go back to wanking over your LSF system thinking your 1337 because you copy and pasted a bunch of commands from the manual. Sooo hardcore.
Slackware was my first distro and lasted for about 4-5 years. IMO better and simpler than gentoo
if you want to learn the Linux internals. Nowadays I use SuSE for personal needs and in my workplace.
Recently I decided just for fun to install Slack on an old machine lying around and you know what slackware
needs to be doing? PROPER PACKAGE MANAGEEEEEEEEER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!!
It was a fun ride with slack.... but never again!
Very well put.
I'll put it another way:
Gentoo is for people who want to spend all their time tweaking the OS and its tools. Other distros like Ubuntu are for people who need to get work done.