Re: Lucy & the Football
Adam Porter wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
>
>>Adam Porter wrote:
>>
>>
>>>~/.mozilla-thunderbird. You can drill down to more specific stuff if
>>>you want.
>>>
>>>Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros.
>>>It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat.
>>
>>
>>You seem to have a new standard answer i.e. advocating installation of
>>other distros to solve minor problems that are easily solved within Debian.
>
>
> Don't get me wrong, I love Debian, and I don't forsee using anything
> else on my desktop for a long time. But that doesn't mean I'm a zealot.
> Ubuntu (and MEPIS and Xandros) is a fine distro, especially for users
> that are new to Linux. For such a user, it may be better for them to
> use a distro that comes with more things already setup, rather than have
> to spend hours fixing lots of little things. Then they can still tweak
> away as much as they want.
User issue: Cannot find Thunderbird inbox. You recommend installing an
alternative distribution as if it will take care of this issue.
User issue: Cannot start windowing environment. Again, not sure that
installing an alternative distribution is the best idea, when two lines
in the shell will fix it.
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