[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the Best Linux & Why?

Ralph Miller rmilpe at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 12 11:18:23 CDT 2004


For over five years, I have used several versions of Red Hat Linux and now have 9.0.  I have installed them many times only for myself as a single user and now feel quite comfortable doing so.  Still I do almost nothing useful such as compiling C programs I have written, but am getting close.  Do use X graphics for documents and spreadsheets for routine things.  Never contact Red Hat for help.  Occasionally update.
 
At the NTLUG meetings, I hear lots of opinions about which release they prefer.  There seems to be some (or a lot of) emotion involved - "My way is best!"  I hear a lot of Red Hat put down, but mine seems to do what I want it to.  I may be a perpetual Newbie.
 
Still, with the changes at Red Hat, I wonder what to do next, if anything.  I am not sure how Debian or Suse or others would work and appear on my screen compared with RH9.  Would I have months of learning another version?  Clearly most in NTLUG are far ahead of me.  I am retired, so being competent in Linux is not as important as it is to you who make a living with it.  I would like to do more, though.
 
It seems I have spent years beginning to use Linux, so go back to Win98, or now WinXP, to do things that must be done.  Surely I am not the only one like this.  That beginning hurdle never seems to go away.
 
Please comment on this if you have an opinion.  Do please keep the responses to a few short paragraphs.
 
Thank you,
 
Ralph M


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