linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] What distro's to try.

On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 06:04:10AM +0100, Jane Delawney wrote:
> Just a couple more small points re: newb distros (& stuff :) ):
>
> > which of course, aggravates the heck out of we dinosaurs who prefer
> > command line. It's not bad to have GUI tools--what aggravates we
> > dinosaurs is when they tie things like networking to the GUI.

> Who is 'they' here?

Fedora, for one. Though I believe it's improving, and one can now, in
theory at least, use their GUI tool NetworkManager without having to
have Gnome running.

I'd always supposed that my complete inability to do
> networking via CLI was down to my lameness, not to anything the distro
> developers have done. But I'd definitely be the last person to work it
> out if that was indeed the case.

Nope. For example, with Mint, at one point, I changed the default
window manager from Gnome to fluxbox. Suddenly, no network.

All such things can usually be fixed, but with so many distributions
around, one gets to the point where they figure, why bother? With
Fedora (and I'm sure this is true for others), when experienced, one can
more or less easily work around it.

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