[GRLUG] My Ubuntu Trial

[Ron Lauzon]

Roberto Villarreal wrote:
> Though, for what it's worth, I was the recipient of a Mandriva box (from 
> you)... I ended up having to wipe up and put Debian on because I couldn't get 
> something to work.  It had something to do with configuring stuff with the 
> GUI, as the box was for my computer-dumb father.  I was able to get it to 
> work fine with Debian's GUI equivalent though :-).
>   
That's sort of what I was getting to.

It seems to me that as far as distros go, they are pretty much all the 
same.  The only differentiating things are:
1. personal preferences
2. personal experience.

I prefer KDE over Gnome. So I would lean toward a KDE distro.  I've used 
Mandriva for a while, so I know what all the little tricks are to get to 
the "interesting" packages installed.

Most of the time, I think that people would rather get by the 
installation part so that they can go off and do something more 
interesting with it, so they wouldn't want to spend the time learning 
the quirks of a new distro.  Even for this test, I took alot of 
shortcuts because I didn't want to spend the time.

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