Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

[David Mandala]

My point exactly, Knoppix is far more friendly, and detects far more
hardware correctly, that said it suffers from the same problems as
Debian, since it is Debian. Once you go past the good features of
Knoppix you are back in Debian hell. Debian is just not user friendly.

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:21, Robert Wultsch wrote:
> Knoppix is debian!!! Just to be clear.
> 
> David Mandala wrote:
> 
> > Debian is on of the hardest versions of Linux to get correctly installed
> > and configured. Slackware is right up with it. For the most part the
> > Debian community is not too interested in ease of use vs fun to hack.
> > Also Debian's hardware detection is very poor as compared to other
> > distros, that is where Knoppix really shines.
> > 
> > Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE are more interested in ease of use. 
> > 
> > I run couple of Red Hat boxes, a Mandrake box, and a Debian box. I also
> > recently had the fun of installing Slackware for a day, it's gone now, I
> > decided not to continue with it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Davidm
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 23:37, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> > 
> >>scripsit David Huerta:
> >>
> >>>Eh, somehow I get the impression you're not quite ready for Debian
> >>>yet.  We'll work on making you a h4rdc0r3 Linux user in the mean time.
> >>
> >>I realize you're not entirely serious, but I am curious why you would
> >>say someone would be `not quite ready for Debian yet' but might be for
> >>RH, for example.  Assuming one has recourse to support for figuring out
> >>the drivers to set up in the installation (or uses Knoppix to install?),
> >>I can't imagine why running a Debian desktop box would be any more of a
> >>trial for a new Linux user than any other distro...
> 
> 
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