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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).'"
Especially since their expertise is most likely just being able to copy and paste commands from the LFS manual.
You should always feel in control of your package. ;-)
>>I would say that Ubuntu has raided the bar for Linux distros.
but they never should have switched the 's' and 'd' keys...
I've jumped from Archlinux (love it, but in the end... it's too much manual work) to Ubuntu 9.10 recently.
Funny, I stopped using Ubuntu on my notebook over a year ago and installed Arch Linux on it for the same reason :D
That's what I keep telling my mom when she yells at me to clean the basement.
I solder my own logic gates.
So does that mean Gentoo is designed for users that have more free time?
Sadly, my girlfriend is control of my package and when I get to use it. :(
So why do people still say this Debian is so much better than RPM?
Because apt-hell isn't the popular term. Even when I'm in apt-hell on a weird Ubuntu variant, I call it rpm-hell because that's what people understand. It's like Kleenex or Coke, a package management problem Brand so popular that it's a generic term for all package management problems. Even gentoo users don't say portage-hell, they call it portage.