[wellylug] Re: Distrowars (was OpenOffice 1.1.1)

[Pizbit]

I've found that quite often the only difference between a 'guru(or expert)' and 
a 'non-guru' is how they approach and analyze a problem.
Ever had someone point out something that's almost literally under your nose 
that did exactly what you wanted? or you solved something because "it just made 
sense that there'd be something there"?

As for choice.. mmmm mmm...If you run debian, for millions of hours of fun! Pick 
the ones with cool sounding names: apt-cache search game | less

Wood Brent wrote:
> --- Damon Lynch <damon at photo.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 18:00, JP wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My biggest beef with Mandrake is what to do if the
>>>thing you want to do doesn't come 'built-in'.  At the
>>>installfest, for example, we were trying to install a
>>>PCI modem (known to work with Linux) on a new Mandrake
>>>system.  The Mandrake wizard thingy couldn't find a
>>>driver and it wasn't clear how to add one in manually.
> 
> 
> The intriging thing: the totally new to Linux user who got Mandrake installed
> without modem support at the installfest turned up at the next LUG meeting.
> Complete with MDK10 system & working modem, sorted out by himself.
> 
> While this sort of makes us "Mandrake experts" suspect, but as I've noted
> before, it ain't hard to find Debian guru's, or Gentoo, etc. A very different
> story with Mandrake because 99% of the time it installs & goes & does what is
> required. No need to learn about config files, etc. So few guru's who really
> know what is under the hood.
> 
> I don't use a PC to become an expert in configuring an OS, I want to use it for
> other things. To date Mandrake has let me do this better than anything else
> I've tried.
> 
> Your needs/preferences may vary, & the one thing Linux does offer is choice- we
> can all pretty much get what we want!!
> 
> 
> Spotcha...
> 
>     Brent
> 
> 


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