Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Linux is awesome

I think Loyal you need to reread the post. He says that Mint is friendly and
suggests that the user might want to try an "unfriendly" distro to learn
basics on. He was not knocking Mint, except the green bit and green can mean
several things. Mint has tried to make a name for itself as user friendly
and I think that you would concur that it has succeeded.

You can learn basics on Mint or Ubuntu or any other big name distro, but you
need to go to great lengths to do so. Something like Arch installs to a
command prompt and you take it from there. The suggestion was that the
person could learn the basic better and become a power user if the tried a
more basic distro such as Arch, Slack or Gentoo. That does not preclude
using Mint for daily use. I don't think that anyone was suggesting Mint is
not good for using, just not a learner's distro in the same way that the
others are. Comments such as "deranged" mean that the writer was poking fun
not at Mint but at anyone who would want to use the commandline only.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 5 December 2010 09:32, loyal_barber <loyal_barber@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Paul" <pfrederick1@...> wrote:
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> > --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "ironmantis7x" <ironmantis7x@> wrote:
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> > > I just wanted to let everyone know that I am enjoying my migration from
> Windows to Linux! <snip>
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> > Mint is awfully green. If you really want to learn Linux then I
> > suggest you run an unfriendly distribution. I've heard a lot of
> > good things about Arch lately. It is inspired by Slackware, a
> > distro notorious for being choosy about who its friends are.
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> > Then there is Gentoo and LFS too for the completely deranged.
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> > To me friendly all too often turns into condescending, or even hennish.
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> > Paul
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> And that, dear friends, is one man's opinion. No, literally, one
> man's opinion. OK so the way to get someone to move from Windows
> or Mac OS is to saddle them with an OS that is difficult for
> seasoned Linux users to set up. I just cannot in good conscience
> concur. You will be MUCH better off with Ubuntu, Mint, or
> PCLinuxOS. I use Mint for my laptop, Ubuntu for my desktop, and
> CentOS for all of my servers. Mint gets the majority of my use
> because IT JUST WORKS. It does not prevent me from doing anything
> such as learning the command line but at the same time does not
> FORCE me into using other than GUI tools to do what I need. If you
> don't like green, it is simple enough to change your desktop.
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> Loyal
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