> Personally I decided on Debian after trying Suse and Red Hat first. Same here.....
> > However, I've been following the Linux distro rankings in one computer > magazine (CHIP, Germany), and Debian is rated lowest amongst 7 others. > I think this is mainly due to lacking "user guidance" during setup and > package installation. I've not installed potato from scratch myself, > but I guess those ratings are based on potato. > > What is the general opinion? > That Debian is not for users who cannot deal with it the way > setup/maintenance is designed now, or that it is a goal to also include > users unfamiliar with the command line someday? > I believe Suse and Mandrake are following the latter path? to do less IMHO is bad marketing....its 'nice' to have a power system for power users..and maybe the intention wasn't/isn't to gain complete dominance of the desktop for 'average' user market......but hey why not its certainly worthy which is why I switched a few years ago ( from windows for many reasons ).. I don't know if its a combo of using 2.4.5/debian/non-ximian but i've noticed speed increases in programs that before ( mozilla is prob worst offender ) were so clunky ( at time running RH7.1 where i noticed much less speed in that app ) that they were ludicrous......j Lee -===
