On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:28:13PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > Anyways, I've always felt that there were two main areas in the "ease" > of a system - how easy it is to learn, and how easy it is to use.
That's a very interesting approach. Never thought of it that way. > Debian is like that. It's harder to learn than both Mandrake and Red > Hat, but it's easier to use and maintain. I wouldn't have been able to > go straight from Windows into Debian, I needed Caldera, Mandrake, and > Red Hat as transitional phases, but now that I'm here I'm not going > back. Same here. I started with Suse and it was ok since I could really work with the system very quickly. Debian would have been much to frustrating back then. Then I migrated and I did never regret it. Is there somebody who changed to Debian and changed back later? Debian is like an ocean; the water of many rivers flows in it - if they did not dry up on their way. Phil