[NBLUG/talk] I'm on the war path now!

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:52:40PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > Debian:  My choice.  Huge package selection.  Free.  Easy to
> > update/upgrade.
> 
> I love Debian too, but I wouldn't advise it for a first Linux install,
> unless you're ready to spend a lot of time learning. :-) SuSE is
> easier on newbies to setup, IME.

I haven't had much difficulty installing Debian/testing (currently: sarge)
on some systems recently.  I wasn't dual-booting, though, so I just told
it to wipe the HDD and use whatever partitioning scheme it thought was
best for a desktop environment.

I can't compare it to SuSE (or, really, any other modern release of any
other distro except Debian), but I didn't think it was too complicated.

It's verbose, but it also assumes reasonable defaults, so in the end,
it's mostly an exercise in hitting the [Enter] key a few times. :)


> Although, if you can get someone at one of the installfests to install
> Debian and get everything working for you, then I'd go for it. Debian
> is nicer to work with than SuSE, I've found, once you've got
> everything working.

So I've heard.  I dropped RedHat for Debian and haven't considered
switching to anythign else yet...

-- 
-bill!
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