Anthony Boynes wrote:
> Debian is geared towards developers???
>
> Interesting thought. I guess I had better stop using it. :P
I see the smiley but just so no one thinks I'm insulting Debian (as a
long time debian user) I'll elaborate.
Yes Debian can do anything any other distro does and can be used by
regular people. My cousins (who got rid of the windows machine bc it
was full of viruses) have been using a debian box for years with very
few problems. but I set it up--they never could have. With
K/Ubuntu--on the other hand--I'd feel comfortable with just telling them
what to do over the phone for an install. (In fact I may be doing that
soon).
You'll never hear the debian project say 'Let's make a GUI installer so
end users can pointy clicky install!" In fact they consistently reject
such notions. The Debian installer is very NON mouse driven,
developer/admin friendly--NOT end user friendly.
The default Debian install will NEVER setup flash and nvidia proprietary
drivers. Some other distros do. Ubuntu has such things available by
just installing those packages--and then they work. Normally I have to
recompile kernels to get nvidia stuff to work on Debian.
Another example, the sarge version of Debian does not and never will
automatically setup a wireless card that uses ndiswrapper. Some distros
manage to do this (like MEPIS). I doubt etch does it automatically
either but I haven't tried.
Again, my point is not an insult against debian but Every distro has a
target audience and end users are NOT the target audience of Debian.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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