On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 22:13:46 PM +0200, Per Jessen (per@computer.org) wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
In any case, I agree with the other guy who said SUSE is not a good distribution for newbies. I too would be reluctant to recommend it, if the main online forum is messed up as it is these days. > I don't think the quality of the available discussion/help fora should have any influence on whether the distro is suitable for newbies or not.
Right, but only in theory. Most newbies are still those who must not _choose_ between Windows and some Linux. They have Windows preinstalled and need support to _abandon_ it.
If that was the case, Windows would never have gotten off the ground.
Windows wasn't a choice for non hackers. It was what was _already_ in the box. That's why I (and others, from what I see) remain reluctant to suggest this particular distribution: the quality of its sw, which yes is good, remains irrelevant when the support to _leave_ an environment technically inferior but already known and installed by others, is so bad. Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Cyberspace makes every place the same. But we're planning to put five billion people in it. [That] will freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. -- Michael Crichton, "The Lost World"