Re: Why Debian
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 03:32 +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
>
> Le 10.11.2013 19:06, Jeff Bauer a écrit :
> > On 11/10/2013 12:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 12:44 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:
> >>> On 11/10/2013 10:40 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 08:17:06AM -0700, thomas aylward wrote:
> >>>>> how does a novice begin with debian? Tom
> >>>>>
> >>>> How does a novice begin with Linux -
> >>> Burn, test drive, and used a live CD distribution for a minimum of
> >>> a
> >>> month and learn all you can about it. Then try some others. Repeat
> >>> as
> >>> necessary until you find a distro worthy of installing.
> >> Simply start with one distro and after a while install two other
> >> distros to the same machine, if the chosen distro shouldn't fit to
> >> your
> >> needs.
> >
> > Advising a novice at Linux to build and configure a multi-boot,
> > multi-OS machine?
>
> Multi boots are usually made by beginners to keep windows aside linux,
> which never works, because people will always tend to use the system
> they know the most and/or on which they can do the most things. And for
> beginners, that system is clearly not a linux based OS, but Windows. And
> if examples are needed: games, CAO, and even simple drawing are easier
> and less restricted on Windows.
> So, I agree with you, advising them to do a multi-boot is not the right
> thing to do.
>
> /But/ it was never said in previous message. Plus, linux beginners are
> not necessarily ignorants of computer sciences. I was not. And finally,
> since Grub is the most commonly installed boot loader, setting up a
> multi-boot do not imply to configure anything. At least, with Debian, it
> is made automatically.
I didn't advice to (1.) make a multi-boot from the beginning, I added
"after a while" it might make sense to install (2.) additional Linux,
not Windows.
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