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Can anyone help me find a good distro ?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Calum ---If they don't want to know how their PC works, then they should probably get somebody else to use it for them (check their emails, listen to their music etc).
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We'd have to ship in Africans if every such person wanted to do that ;)
--- Quote ---I am sure these don't-want-to-know-how-it-works users have had to deal with a number of issues and quirks during their windows life, so they can't complain that linux isn't suddenly as smooth as silk for them, especially if they won't make the effort to shift mentally to the new paradigm.
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The new paradigm is in the direction Ubuntu, FC etc are going.. And on these OSes they can well complain if "linux isn't suddenly as smooth as silk for them", because they're part of the target audience of these OSes.
I wouldn't even bother with slackware anymore. It was king for when I wanted to know how the individual OS components work (e.g. X11). Now I get it and slackware is mostly just a waste of my time (fuck having to go anywhere when a friend brings over a camera ... just plug the damn thing in and the photo manager automatically pops up. I wouldn't want to have that done in a rush on slackware).
H_TeXMeX_H:
I've found both Ubuntu and FC to be really buggy (especially new releases). Slackware is the way to go if you don't want serious buggyness.
worker201:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---I've found both Ubuntu and FC to be really buggy (especially new releases). Slackware is the way to go if you don't want serious buggyness.
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Make sure you are extremely clear here - unless I'm mistaken, they're not buggy, they just don't support your shitty hardware very well. There's a difference.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Yeah, well many people have shitty hardware (at least that's what I saw on the Ubuntu forums ... there were hundreds of posts about bugs due to BIOS and other hardware problems).
As for FC6 ... it's fucked even without shitty hardware.
pofnlice:
I had absolutely ZERO hardware issues with Ubuntu. I'm not top end at all.
AMD Athlon 2800+
Abit NF7S Motherboard
Nvidia on board sound device
Radeon 8500 video
Network everywhere ethernet card
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