Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 11:53, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Of course, I'm also tempted to install Sarge with KDE, OpenOffice,
> Mozilla etc. How un-user friendly can that be. ;)
Not unfriendly at all! :-) If you are prepared to manage the box...
It is installing and tweaking config options to be _Exactly Right_
that's hard in Debian, using it, when well tweaked is no harder than
any other distro or Windows for that matter for someone reasonably
intelligent and willing to learn. And given that you're their
offspring... :-)
My parents run Debian. The workstation has only Debian, the laptop has
Debian and XP, but XP is hardly ever in use. I've set them up, and it
works fairly well. There are issues that I haven't had time to
corrrect, so they call now and then. I've promised I'll fix it for real
soon... :-)
And that works fine until your father decides he is a geek too, after
all, and goes out to buy a new toy without checking the hardware specs
and driver availability that we do... :-)
Cheers,
Kjetil
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