On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 12:44:54AM +0100, Jane Delawney wrote:
> Duh. Have been a watcher but not contributor to this list for ages; so
> don't know what the accepted format it. Top post or bottom post?
Inline. :) That is, answer point A under point A, point B under point
B.
That being said, as you've noticed, people post in all sorts of ways,
but in general, the most technically oriented members, most of whom are
IT professionals, post in line. (Save for when someone <waves to Jeff>
has to use their smartphone).
Said IT pros also tend to trim, that is eliminate unnecessary points
from the mail that they're answering. However, especially on this list,
where it becomes a major issue each time it's raised, post as you
wish--just note again that the majority of the more experienced are more
likely to read a properly formatted post.
>
> On 07/05/10 02:03, sgttutt2001 wrote:
> > I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 which I like, but would it be worth to try another distro? I have a external HD that I would install it on. I know that everyone has their favorite one. Any recommendations would be welcomed.
> >
> > i am still a newbie to Linux.
> >
> >
> Hello there,
>
> In case you find it helpful: I am the original non-techie! I started
> using Linux because I was so sick of the security issues that come
> bundled with Windoze. As a complete ignoramus, technophobe and general
> command line eejit, I have been running Mandrake / Mandriva Linux as an
> *almost* pure GUI OS since 2001.
Wow, no one mentioned Mandriva? Hrrm, I should have thrown in a mention
of it.
That's right; as a pointy-clicky non
> technical Windoze refugee, with a blind spot for learning technical
> stuff, I have still been able to run a viable system, use the internet
> (both dial-up and broadband), do eBay, watch videos on YouTube, use mail
> and newsgroups, do pretty much everything I want to do out there, with
> the help of Mandriva forums, a smidgen of intelligent googling, and a
> little (but not too much) recourse to linuxquestions.
> mailing list.
>
> I'd highly recommend this underrated, French RH derivative
I think it lost popularity for several reasons--they were charging for
it, which bothered people, they put in non-open source things, meaning
it was actually useful, back before that was popular, and so on.
However, yes, it's an excellent beginner's distro, that is also used by
the guru. And yes, originally it wsa an RH derivative, the big
difference at the time, back in the late 90's, IIRC, was that they
wanted KDE vs. RH's Gnome.
However, they are, as you say, well beyond that now.
>
> I've tried most of the distros people have mentioned - Mint is pretty;
> but the only one so far that has configured the wireless nic on my
> laptop without issues was SimplyMepis - nobody mentioned that yet
Actually, I think Roy did. :)
Interesting though, for me Mepis had more trouble with my wireless than
some of the others. I think Mepis is a great distro, very friendly,
helpful forums, with developers active there, and I think that had
Warren not gotten ill, and had Ubuntu not come along, it would have bee
what Ubuntu is now.
> another Debian derivative, and for me it works well in that one respect.
> And I have a netbook that uses Asus's own little distro, though they now
> seem to have stopped supporting this, which is rather a shame (it's
> Debian by any other name though).
I never did use it--it was Xandros, a commercial distro based on Debian.
From what I understood (never having used it, only hearsay) it was
somewhat crippled though. This was, unfortunately, the case on most of
the netbooks that came Linux--Acer used Linpus, which was a really
screwed up version of Fedora 8, MSI, I think, used a crippled version of
Novell's commercial SuSE, etc.
>
> Dunno if any of that is helpful - but yes, if you're not fond of the
> CLI, it IS possible to use Linux as a GUI OS. I've been doing it for 10
> years with Mandrake / Mandriva, and I don't regret a moment.
Yup agreed. I'd say the same for most of the desktop distributions now,
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.
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