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Apr 1, 2006View in Crawl 4
Ironically I was playing around with installing Ubuntu on my laptop this morning. When it got to the disk partitioner, I found myself thinking.. "This text based installer looks like RedHat did 8 years ago. This s**t is still not ready for prime time." .. oh, bonus: laptop wireless card not supported. Have fun compiling and fcuking with NDIS for two hours, buddy. -> Took CD out-> Reloaded Windows-->Posted from OS X machine that Just Works When You Turn It On (tm)
Um, it's not a top ten list as in "what are the top ten distros". Because, yeah, if you want to know the top ten, you just go to distrowatch. This is an article that differentiates between the existing known top distros -- that is, *why* you might pick one over the others. That's something that distrowatch doesn't do at all.
for SuperSloth -- on the 'car' analogyThe analogy goes I guess, but you forget to mention that for the majority of people, the only thing they know about using the cars is that if you turn the wheel, the car turns in that direction. I believe they should be making 'cars' where it's easy to figur out how to also use the direction pointers and how to switch gears. In plain english. The UI of all these distro's is still clinging to close to the Windows way of doing things. And let's face it. For a lot of people it's just to complicated. Sure... they know how Word works (kinda, a bit, just enough) but that's it. I keep bashing on this in the podcast, hoping that one day, some linux group comes out with this great 'different' UI.
scotsApr 1, 2006
Ironically I was playing around with installing Ubuntu on my laptop this morning. When it got to the disk partitioner, I found myself thinking.. "This text based installer looks like RedHat did 8 years ago. This s**t is still not ready for prime time." .. oh, bonus: laptop wireless card not supported. Have fun compiling and fcuking with NDIS for two hours, buddy. -> Took CD out-> Reloaded Windows-->Posted from OS X machine that Just Works When You Turn It On (tm)
superslothApr 1, 2006
Um, it's not a top ten list as in "what are the top ten distros". Because, yeah, if you want to know the top ten, you just go to distrowatch. This is an article that differentiates between the existing known top distros -- that is, *why* you might pick one over the others. That's something that distrowatch doesn't do at all.
Closed AccountApr 2, 2006
It goes on and on and on
davidmonaghanApr 3, 2006
That's your opinion, not sure what that's based on though...
systemtrashApr 4, 2006
for SuperSloth -- on the 'car' analogyThe analogy goes I guess, but you forget to mention that for the majority of people, the only thing they know about using the cars is that if you turn the wheel, the car turns in that direction. I believe they should be making 'cars' where it's easy to figur out how to also use the direction pointers and how to switch gears. In plain english. The UI of all these distro's is still clinging to close to the Windows way of doing things. And let's face it. For a lot of people it's just to complicated. Sure... they know how Word works (kinda, a bit, just enough) but that's it. I keep bashing on this in the podcast, hoping that one day, some linux group comes out with this great 'different' UI.