[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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