On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:41:54PM -0500, Roy wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 9.10 as my main distribution. I have 6 distributions plus
> Windows currently install spread across three drives. Obviously I
> multi-boot. I use a separate grub for each drive. It works well unless a
> distribution crosses me up which happened with openSuSE 11.2 recently which
> did not write grub where I asked it to. Fedora at least put grub where I
> wanted and nicely allowed me to choose boot order which impressed me.
Well, slashdot readers have no doubt learned that the fellow who
develops package kit, who I've never considered a particularly nice
fella, nor one who cares about the users, has new thing--non-root users,
without a password, can install software. Un freaken believable..
Even Rahul and Adam don't seem that adverse to it, which is a bit of a
shock. It's worse than Windows actually.
>
> So my verdict thus far is that Fedora is a) not as user friendly as it could
> be and b) not for casual users. Both of these things are not news to me. I
> had hoped they would move from backward thinking. By backward I mean circa
> 1999 when I started Linux. So much has happened since then. You need to jump
> through hoops to get not only the bells and whistles but to get a basic
> operational system that plays youtube.
Heh, errm, see that xkcd that I'm sure I've posted somewhere.
Again, much of this is not Fedora's fault (but I'm in shock over this
install package thing, especially the attitude of the folks supporting
it.
>
>
> What I am looking forward to is using Fedora and learning to like RPM. That
> will be something if I can manage it.
Apt is probably better, actually. :)
>
> I have not been using it. It has all of my multimedia files and and holiday
> photos on it. The only one that used that drive was openSuSE which wrote to
> the MBR of that drive, something that I did not ask it to do. Hmmm.
>
They, at least the desktop distributions, seem to be getting more
Windows like all the time.
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