hi hi .. I stumbled upon this line of reasoning myself as I was thinking about maybe moving to some other distro when I'll know more ... but indeed .. why not an expert Mandrake user? ... so I'm thinking to moving to another distro in the hopes that it'll handle my sound card better ... but what if it'll simply force me to do more low level configuring & than it'll work .. why not simply get to the low level configuring on mandrake ? :-) ... ok, so one might reason that a distro that is oriented completelly for low level configuring would be better suited .. but then again .. isn't it cool to have a distro which might very well do everythign automatically .. thus ridding you of many of the problems .. and low-leveling on just what you want ?
I hear this argument all the time that Mandrake is great for newbies but once you have more experience, you'll want <insert distro here>. As far as I can tell, there is nothing in Mandrake that keeps someone from delving deeper into the workings of Linux. It is true that Mandrake has a lot of GUI tools and wizards, but the cli is still there. Out of curiousity, what exactly can you do in slackware by hand that you can't do in Mandrake by hand?
Joeb
... but truth be told .. though I might sometimes be intimidated by a Slackware/Debian person ... I'd still like a linux that was auto-magically working ... I'm sad that this is as yet not completelly true for Mandrake :-( ... I mean it works for me almost good enough (I still don't know how much I've f**** up the way the sound is supposed to come out cleanly by messing in alsamixer with un-intuitive/mixed contorls .. trying to enable & calibrate my rear speakers) ... but like I said, this friend I helped install 9.2 rc 1 ... not even with alsamixer did it work ... so I'm a bit discouraged ... I don't see/know any tutorial for mandrake of making those speakers work for a Sb Live 5.1 :-(
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