We must be talking about different users. The user I was responding to said that he was a power user wanted to learn using only the commandline and no GUI. So I originally suggested Arch in a VM. I know that this is a newbies forum, but he was not a newbie or so he said.
I would recommend Arch to a new user, if that new user wanted such a distribution and experience. Users enter Linux at all levels and can bring to Linux advanced skills. And some do not want to start with a box that just works. They may want a Heathkit kind of experience. It takes all kinds and fortunately Linux offers a full range of options and experiences. I do recommend Mint to a newbie who had no experience and wanted things to just work OTB. I did post that my wife was now using Mint. Anyway, no harm done, he can take advice or not as he sees fit. If I am wrong in this (my memory isn't what it used to be) I apologise in advance. I do not have the full conversation as I get this by email and am too lazy to go to the forum. I know that you are an advocate for Mint and that is good, however I did not see this discussion as detracting from Mint (save the green comment and I happen to like green). :) Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 5 December 2010 10:54, loyal_barber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected] <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>, > Roy <linuxcan...@...> wrote: > > > > I think Loyal you need to reread the post. > > I did Roy and my feelings are the same. It is a bad idea to > recommend a difficult version to a Newbie. I always subscribe to > "walk before you run." > > > He says that Mint is friendly and > > He suggests in his last statement that this is a drawback. Read > it again. > > > > suggests that the user might want to try an "unfriendly" distro to learn > > basics on. He was not knocking Mint, except the green bit and green can > mean > > several things. Mint has tried to make a name for itself as user friendly > > and I think that you would concur that it has succeeded. > > > > You can learn basics on Mint or Ubuntu or any other big name distro, but > you > > need to go to great lengths to do so. Something like Arch installs to a > > command prompt and you take it from there. The suggestion was that the > > person could learn the basic better and become a power user if the tried > a > > more basic distro such as Arch, Slack or Gentoo. That does not preclude > > using Mint for daily use. I don't think that anyone was suggesting Mint > is > > not good for using, just not a learner's distro in the same way that the > > others are. Comments such as "deranged" mean that the writer was poking > fun > > not at Mint but at anyone who would want to use the commandline only. > > > > Roy > > <snip> > > Sorry, Roy, I just think you are wrong. I think you read what > you wanted into his reply. I am sure I am doing the same. That > said, I would NEVER recommend Arch to a new user. Would I recommend > Arch later? Absolutely. Again, walk before you run or better > stated: ready, aim, fire, not ready, fire, aim. There is enough to > get used to in Linux using Ubuntu or Mint first. Suggesting the user > would be better suited to go to Arch or Slackware first is an > excellent way to get the new user to convert back to Windows and > say, "Linux is just too hard to learn." > > Loyal > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
