On (16/09/05 17:16), Andy Streich wrote: > 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. I put up some notes with some links: http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/deb_intro.html
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