[Techtalk] New to the list

Raquel Rice raquel at thericehouse.net
Tue Nov 2 02:32:41 EST 2004


On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:01:44 -0600
April <april at farstrider.org> wrote:

> Just a dissenting opinion. :)  As a newbie, Mandrake drove me
> three kinds of nuts.  I had Windows-like problems with "It doesn't
> work and no one will ever know why" situations.  I was actually
> relieved when I tried Debian...  Doing anything was harder, but
> dealing with problems was easier.

My first distro was Red Hat.  I loved Linux but strongly disliked
RH.  Then I tried Debian and it's like the difference between night
and day.  It doesn't have the graphical interfaces which changed
things, but not all the right things, but I know what's going on and
it all works.  It just plain works.

-- 
Raquel
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