John L Fjellstad wrote:
Cecil <xeys_00@yahoo.com> writes:I just gotta say that debian is giving me all the functionality I had in windows. Slack didn't. Redhat didn't. Gentoo was just a pain to get installed.I love my Debian, but I really don't see how Debian has some Windows functionality that Slack or RedHat wouldn't have. mp3, kmail, gaim, browsers, if I can get it to run on Debian, I can get it to run on Slack or RedHat or any other linux distribution.
I'm new to the list: be gentle. Heh. If there's a distinct functional benefit of Debian over other distributions, I think it would be the fact that Debian is, simply put, a straightforward Linux distribution with excellent native package management. It doesn't play silly buggers with distro-specific applications and runs zero risk of "vendor lock" because of that straightforward nature. If anything, you're more likely to be able to replicate a Windows "feel" to a Linux installation's functionality by choosing a more proprietary distribution that is designed to pretend to be Windows for the faint-of-CLI (such as Linspire or Xandros). -- must be at least this geekish to ride