Re: Help with Linux selection please?

[Gabriel <nqtnn.gabo@gmail.com>]

Arafangion wrote:

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:01, CaT wrote:
  

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
    

It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.
      

I didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'Neither' or 'Other' option
to that so I chose 'What's the difference?' and told it I didn't need to
be told. Still, in the end it recommended (in order): Debian, Ubuntu,
Kubuntu, Mepis and Linspire.

I think I'm a debian user. :)
    

Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test 
should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that 
bundle "nice stuff" out of the box.

Still, Debian is a terrific OS.


  

It's IMO because it includes free and non-free distros (as free beer, not as free speech ;-)).
It's like when you go to a library and say: yes, I'm looking for a $10 book. They'll show you $1-$10 books (if theres is one that costs $1 =P) as you're expressing that you probably have $10 in your pocket and you don't care about expending them, but you don't have to expend them.

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