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Question: Which Distro? :: Total Votes:120
Poll choices Votes Statistics
Debian 19  [15.83%]
Slackware 15  [12.50%]
Fedora/RedHat 10  [8.33%]
SuSE 9  [7.50%]
Gentoo 5  [4.17%]
DSL 44  [36.67%]
Windows 8  [6.67%]
Mandrake 6  [5.00%]
Other 4  [3.33%]
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Posted: Oct. 28 2004,21:53 QUOTE
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Right now, my main OS is Windows 2000 Pro.  "Favorite" might be too strong a word to describe it, though.  It happens to be the platform that runs all the apps I use on a daily basis and is reasonably stable & useable once it's customized with enough 3rd-party sw to replace Micro$oft's half-fast "solutions".

Tried RH, SuSE & Mandrake a few times.  They shore do look purdy, but they just seem too big/slow/bloated for me to understand.  Learning all those cryptic *nix console commands, I think, has been the primary barrier to my jumping into Linux altogether.

I think DSL is the best distro for Linux newbies -- running it's a breeze, it's useful right "out of the box", and it's small enough to learn at a hacker's level.  I like the Fluxbox UI.  Who says Linux has to look like Windows anyway?

If I can get to the point where I can do everything in Linux that I currently do in Windows, I'll be happy, and -- I'll probably make a permanent switchover

Win2000 is M$ appology for WinME

And you can do everything in Linux that Windows can - (minus the gaming :( ) but everything else is more powerful, faster, and cheaper!!

(insert million dollar man running sound [nah, nah, nah, nah, nah] here)

Brian
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WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Oct. 29 2004,13:05 QUOTE
My experience with Linux is limited to Knoppix & DSL, but I've used Win2k a lot.

So far I think what will limit Linux's expansion as a desktop system is the look and feel of the workhorse Office programs.

Unfortunately, MSWord etc just looks and feels a lot better on the screen.  The screen fonts look sharper. This is important if you use word processing all day, which many people do.  Both Abiword and OpenOffice suffer from a slightly furry look on the screen to me, whereas MSWord is sharp and crystal clear.
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Posted: Oct. 29 2004,14:21 QUOTE
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My experience with Linux is limited to Knoppix & DSL, but I've used Win2k a lot.

So far I think what will limit Linux's expansion as a desktop system is the look and feel of the workhorse Office programs.

Unfortunately, MSWord etc just looks and feels a lot better on the screen.  The screen fonts look sharper. This is important if you use word processing all day, which many people do.  Both Abiword and OpenOffice suffer from a slightly furry look on the screen to me, whereas MSWord is sharp and crystal clear.

http://www.staroffice.com/
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/

You can do anything that M$ does with linux....it just takes a bit of work!!!

Brian
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linster
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Posted: Oct. 31 2004,17:41 QUOTE
I like SuSE becuase  of its simplicity to burn iso's (all you do is click on the file and click burn and it works. no luck with fedora for this) and its exellent YaST tool. (YaST = Yet Another Setup Tool). long live SuSE
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Matty
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Posted: Nov. 03 2004,20:25 QUOTE
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You can do anything that M$ does with linux....it just takes a bit of work!!!

But why should it take any more work when win runs right out of the box.

I gave up getting DSL to run on my old thinkpad because of problems getting X to go.

Currently trying an old install of Mandrake...at least X goes ;-)

Matty
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