What's your favorite flavor?

[drag]

Originally posted by: DasFox

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
BSD is for people that love Unix.
Linux is for people who hate Windows.

- M4H

LOL, well I can't say I hate Windows, but man last night I could start feeling the HATE when I got some DAMM winantivirus.com hijack.

LOL

I was a 'hate windows' person for a while.
But then I stopped using Windows and became a lot more reasonable. It's easier to have perspective when your farther away from the problem.

 

[DasFox]

drag that's funny.

I'm using at the moment "Zenwalk" and this is ONE AWESOME DISTRO!

Zenwalk:
http://www.zenwalk.org/

ALOHA

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: DasFox
drag that's funny.

I'm using at the moment "Zenwalk" and this is ONE AWESOME DISTRO!

Zenwalk:
http://www.zenwalk.org/

ALOHA

Oh ya. Those boutique distros canbe a lot of fun. Especially when you can find one that is fast and clean and has and do everything you want out of the box.

There was one that I remember that was a lot of fun.. It was called 'Evil Entity Linux'. All dark and multimedia centric. Unfortunately it was based around Enlightenment and they died waiting for Entlightenment 0.17... (that was a few years ago.)

Oh well.

edit:
for S&G here are a couple "Trying to switch to Windows" articles. A bit tongue in cheek:

The install screen consisted of a simple blue background and an easy-to-use menu. I wanted to backup my data at first so I tried to open a virtual terminal but the normal CTRL-ALT-F1 didn?t work (WTF?).

http://matthias-endler.de/?p=41

"Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability"
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216

 

[Kalessian]

For my desktop, gentoo.

For notebooks, I find arch is a good trade off between binary and source distros (pacman + abs).

For the family PCs, fedora is my favorite as an easy to use binary distro.

 

[Kalessian]

Now that CNR is free to use, freespire isn't so bad. In fact it's great for real PC newbs, so easy to install programs.

 

[Nothinman]

How is it easier than Synaptic?

 

[Kalessian]

It's been a long time since I've used debian(&friends). But I remember synaptic being like yumextender. CNR has screenshots, user reviews/votes on programs, and categories down to like Video Players/Sports Games/etc

http://wiki.freespire.org/images/8/85/Desktop3.png

 

[Nothinman]

Those aren't bad ideas, but I was just talking about app usability. Clicking search, install and apply is equally easy in both apps AFAIK. I do like the screenshots idea and it is something that Debian's been talking about implementing but it probably won't be there until etch+1. User reviews/voting is iffy to me though without knowing how Linspire keeps people from artificially inflating/deflating different package's ratings.

 

[nweaver]

not to mention linspire doesn't have a large enough user base to get many votes/review...doesn't deb have a popularity contest package?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Linspire is too much like Windows, to me. I mean, it was previously named "Lindows". -_-

 

[Nothinman]

not to mention linspire doesn't have a large enough user base to get many votes/review...doesn't deb have a popularity contest package?

Yea, but popcon isn't installed by default and all it does is send what packages you have installed so installing something is essentially a +1 vote for it in popcon.

http://popcon.debian.org/

 

[Kalessian]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Linspire is too much like Windows, to me. I mean, it was previously named "Lindows". -_-

First, freespire > linspire. And freespire is about as much like windows as KDE w/ WinXP behavior selected. I believe the distro you are referring to is "Linux XP". Freespire is still linux, in fact the whole CNR vs synaptic issue is moot because freespire can use both if you're careful.

You can't knock off the ease of use of CNR by saying the voting system might be messed up. For my mother I think it will be MUCH easier to go to "vid players" and install xine, and then use it, by herself. How would she know what xine was with yum extender? Sure it has descriptions, but you'd have to go through the whole repo and read everything.

I'll start her off on freespire then switch her to fedora.

 

[Nothinman]

For my mother I think it will be MUCH easier to go to "vid players" and install xine, and then use it, by herself. How would she know what xine was with yum extender? Sure it has descriptions, but you'd have to go through the whole repo and read everything.

Or more likely she'll just use Totem (or whatever the KDE equiv is) since it'll already be installed and associated with her videos.