[ale] Building the perfect Linux end-user systems.

[James Taylor]

I'm not a hard-core linux hacker, and I don't use windows in any form, so Linux is my sole productivity tool.  I have to have stuff that just works.

I almost never have to worry about dependency issues.  If I had to work at getting my platform to work rather than using my platform to work, then I would look elsewhere, but I haven't had to.  When I have tried other distros, I have never found one as easy to use and support.

-jt


James Taylor
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>>> "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com> 10/07/06 12:06 PM >>>
James Taylor wrote:
> 
> At the risk of starting a distro-war, SuSE has been the distro that
> I've used because almost everything I've ever wanted to do has "just
> worked" out of the box, or has has had distro-specifice RPMs
> immediately available.
> 
> I see a lot of traffic relative to Ubuntu that revolves around how to
> get things to work that I just use out of the box.
> 

I suppose that I need to pay better attention -- most of my stuff just
works.  Including my WiFi (which I have never seen happen until I tried
this).  In any case, I will never use an RPM-based distribution again;
RPM is burdened with issues.  I recently saw someone using an RPM based
distribution, it told them it was time to upgrade, and an hour later it
finally finished calculating dependencies -- and it was missing one.

No, thanks.  I'll take no packages at all before I will take RPMs ever
again.  It is a shame, IMHO, that LSB made RPM the standard, and not
DEB/dpkg.

	-- Mike

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