Re: signing off
Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:
> paul taylor wrote:
>
> > It just another distro that is not ready for prime time
I sympathise with your reaction (computers really are a pain in the
ass), though I think any assessment of Debian is very much a question
of perspective and the resulting expectations. For example, at work I
run Solaris, a "Commercial" O/S, and I find it much easier to make
things work under Debian. So, approaching Debian from a Unixish
perspective, I think it's pretty good. The main problem with Debian
Linux is that it is, by association, forced to live up to the
marketing hype generated by other distributions and the whole Linux
thing in general. I'm not a big believer in this "the computer is
always right" ideology espoused by many computer people, but FWIW I
think the best way to enjoy Debian is to buy into the hackish Unix
philosophy of doing things the "hard" way. For me, the "hard" way
usually turns out to be the easy way in the long run. The greatest sin
of contemporary O/S's is that they pretend to assume the user is
stupid, and subsequently make him actually feel stupid when things fail
to work as advertised. The advertising is the problem.
-chris
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