what distros have what advantages?

[lazygamer]

Oh goody, another fighter for teh n00b Linux distro.

Ok Mandrake VS Lycoris?

Let's make this easier, the categories are:

Hardware compatibility

Direct software compatibility(running some non-Linux shit without an emulator)

Emulated Windows/DOS software compatibility

Non-gaming performance(Such as websurfing and the neat Windows-ish GUI not moving slow like the Windows GUI)

Direct Linux gaming performance(not using an emulator, which distro gets higher framerates on games. Half-life Linux is one such example)

Emulated Windows/DOS performance(What one runs emulators better?)

ADSL modem compatibility(Does either one have problems?)

User friendlyness(Which one is more user friendly)

Customizability

Ease of Install

Mid range system performance(433 celeron is a mid-range system. Not modern enough for stuff like RTCW, not old enough to be a joke power wise)

[Refalm]

A friend has Desktop/LX installed...

He doesn't even know the difference between a modem and an ethernetcard and still, he can install it.

He has problems with his ADSL account, because Desktop/LX doesn't create the right script needed for ADSL. On the Lycoris website, there is a tutorial about the ADSL things.

I send him an e-mail with explanation and so on, but I don't think he even knows what the command prompt is.

I think Mandrake will create the right script for ADSL, because I read something about that on the Lycoris forum.

[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: Refalm ]

[lazygamer]

Hmmm well... Mandrake may be better then. Yet still, there's a "script tutorial". Anything else that one OS has over the other?

[lazygamer]

How do I decide? Well let's check the websites. Mandrake seems n00b friendly and Lycoris seems REALLY windows-ish(minus all the stupid stuff about windows). What wins out? Well I have enough confidence in being a higher tier of Linux n00bishness so Mandrake it is.

Now then, to backup these harddrives...