the problem with Linux?

[Lloyd Budd]

There is a relatively recent thread on this mailing list,
"user friendliest" Linux distro , whether I like or not, I still
feel SUSE has the throne:

IMHO SUSE is now the leader in "user friendly" -- though Debian or
Gentoo are the only way to go if you have the "resources" for the
initial installation and configuration.  I am not suggesting switching,
but if I am to recommend a distribution to a new user or computer
(Debian/Gentoo clause above) then it is SUSE.

When I did select Mandrake, a main consideration was to use a
Gnome supporter.  Now that Ximian and SUSE have the same
parent company, SUSE has the best of both world (Gnome & KDE).
I did not overcome tryiing to find "sources" for YAST(2) for software
install sources and update, but I thankfully I did not have to.
Ximian's red-carpet , as was my experience under RedHat ,
is a fantastic, complete pkg management tool
(and the downloads have plenty of bandwidth)

I have yet to install SUSE on a lap top , but I am looking forward to
   trying SUSE's functionality that I understand defers 'eth' exhaustive
   "resolution" of failure (not connected) on startup.

Cheers,
Lloyd

On 7-Apr-04, at 17:38, Noah John Gellner wrote:

> I am searching for a distro with nice defaults to use as a desktop
> system. I use Gentoo as a server and like it a lot. As a desktop though
> I had difficulties getting it working the way that I wanted it. I think
> that it is mostly a question of time, which I won't have till the
> summer. I tried Debian, but ran into a number of problems with my mouse
> not working and the default settings are horribly ugly. I didn't have
> the time to spend to get the machine looking half decent. This summer I
> will move to either Debian or Gentoo I think. In the past I have tried
> Mandrake and didn't like it because many of the drake tools didn't work
> at all. I used to use Slackware, but haven't tried it for years.
> Noah
>
> On 17:08 Wed 07 Apr     , Fraser Campbell wrote:
>> I am curious to find out why people use Fedora.  Have those using 
>> Fedora ever
>> tried Debian, what was the deciding factor in going the Fedora route? 
>>  I am
>> genuinely curious about this issue, since I cannot come up with any 
>> reasons
>> to choose Fedora personally.
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