On Saturday 25 December 2004 3:40 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'd like to know beforehand, what functionality I'll lose when moving > from Windows to debian. For instance, point-and-click ease-of-use in > installing applications. You don't have that with Windows, though you'll gain it in Debian with aptitude. In Windows, you have to drive to the store, buy the software, drive home, and *hope* setup.exe works like advertised. In Debian, you just use aptitude to select the software you want and hit Go and wait for it to download and install. Which is easier? > Another example: multimedia, > such as playing MP3 audio files or downloading pictures from my > digital camera. Not sure about the camera, but media of almost every format imaginable is easy to play with a variety of players Windows users only imagine in their wildest wet dreams. > I like the 'back-end' stability that Linux has, but question whether > that stability will be negated by a more difficult user interface, or > lack thereof. Windows users poo-poo Linux while fans of Linux complain > Windows is straight from h*ll -- isn't there a middle-ground truth? Not really. Windows is losing ground to MacOS and Linux for good reason. Grab one of the LiveCD distros and start playing around until you're ready to install to hard disk (in which, get a real distro instead of the live CD ones). -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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