On 09/10/2011 12:48 PM, Robert Wolfe wrote:
The original poster addressed all of your points in advance - stable IS TOO OLD for win/mac migrants. Their expectations are much higher in terms of versions of such basic things as internet and e-mail. Downloading the source code and building is EXACTLY WHAT LINUX IS INFAMOUS FOR in the world of Win/Mac users. The whole point of a distro is to provide pre-built packages of everything they are likely to need in an easy to use fashion. Updating often is something thing that Windows is infamous for. 700 MB downloads of updates in a month old system does appear disconcerting (to say the least) to a new Linux user. The truth here is that Debian is not necessarily very well suited to novice desktop users, or even many power users. It is wonderful as the basis for many other excellent distributions that favour end users more, such as Ubuntu, and Mint, either of which I would recommend to the novice Win/Mac user. Both of which include much newer application software in their current incarnations, but use the current Debian kernel and package management system. -- Dominic Amann M 416-270-4587 |