Re: Users ready for Debian on the Desktop
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I still think that the Debian install was easier than the Windows install.
No doubt. Yesterday I did a woody network installation for a base system
in about 15 minutes. If that. I installed XP the other day to test some
hardware and it took quite a while and I had no clue what all got
installed and it sure made a lot of wrong assumptions for me, and IIRC
complained that it couldn't connect to the network (who was it trying to
connect to?).
Of course, it took me about a two days to get CUPS working, and about four
days to get my USB scanner working (well, it works once in a while), and
another day to get my Palm Pilot to sync (never got hotplug to
automatically run the sync without a kernel panic). Anyone on this list
might also remember that I spent weeks (months?) trying to get fonts
working "ok". Xinerama still is screwy. All that stuff was basically
plug-n-play when I tried with XP. Of course how things work once
"running" on XP is another issue. And when things don't work at least
there's hope for a fix on Linux -- if you are willing to put in the time.
I replaced that XP install within hours with Debian. I never let it touch
my network, either.
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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