On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate > > other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. > > That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little > support for in the free software community. I think most people will > agree that we want to direct people to what is best for them.
I am also an overwhelmed newbie, one who could not have been using Debian for the last 9 months without the kind (and sometimes terse and abrupt) help from people on this list. It takes a remarkable amount of dedication and time to become comfortable configuring a desktop Debian system on a machine with modest resources where you can't run KDE or GNOME without a significant performance problem. The choice of window managers for a desktop systems is, to really go out on a limb, fairly important. The best advice I've gotten is that I should just start installing and trying out all the others. That's not too appealing but I accept the reality. I keep staring at my Ubuntu disks and wondering if I should switch horses. Yet I can't begin to estimate the costs involved -- in terms of my time and in the quality and maintainability of the resulting system. Would a few months of using Ubuntu cause me to come running back to Debian? I have no idea. Any pointers to useful reading material would be appreciated.