[Lilux-help] Distro is not as important as we all think

[Georges Toth]

> > depending on how you define "newbie".
> > if you define as newbie, someone who just has met his first pc....well
> > you are absolutely right.
> > but if you call a newbie, someone who knows well, how to cope with
> > windooze, and just migrates....you are wrong....tottally wrong.
> > i know enough people migrating from windows to gentoo, and none had any
> > problems, actually they loved it.
>
> This is what I mean: People will get very emotional about distros. There
> will be no consensus. A comparison matrix (no matter what it looks like)
> will not be accepted by all readers on this list. It's like a religion ;-)
>
> Take any distro you like ;---)))))) Or try them all. Last but not least:
> only take the distro *I* recommend ;-)

:-)
i get emotional about distros if you attack a distro with arguments which are 
just wrong.


> People only recommend their favorite distro.... Sadly but true. Maybe I
> am no exception.

depends.
if the user just wants a running system and doesn't want to cope with it more 
in detail, i wouldn't recommend gentoo.
i would rather go for mandr, lindows, whatever.


-- 
regards,
Georges Toth