[CS-FSLUG] Distro commentary

[N. Thompson]

Brian Derr wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:32:01PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
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>>...it was just a matter of how much work I wanted to do compared to
>>how much free time I wanted to have. Durring the last two days of my
>>spring break I learned a lot about Linux which will be usefull in the
>>future but at the same time I've been regretting not being able to
>>spend that time working on my programs and getting school work done.
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>Now, I have a very important question for you:  how much time have you
>wasted by selecting which packages you want installed for the 
>4.3 x 10^32 distros you've installed?  Don't you think your time would
>be much better used by picking a distro, installing it, customizing it
>and sticking with it?  Sure, slackware (or any distro) will take a
>couple of days to a week of time to get set perfectly how you want it.
>But once done, you are free to do anything you want.  Yeah, you'll tweak
>your .muttrc or your .profile from time to time, but you already have
>everything setup how you want it.  No more wasted time getting library
>dependencies fixed for KDE, etc.
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>And by the way, you will *never* find the ideal distro unless you roll
>one yourself.  Since everyone has different ways of organizing the way
>things are done, etc there will always be *one* little thing that bugs
>you...think about it.
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>Brian
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That a very pessimistic opinion. I'm tired of being told to stick with 
one distro or <insert excuse here>.
Whats the point of having distributions if you're not going to try more 
then one, why should I have to settle for the first distro I try because 
of its fancy name, logo, propaganda or reputation. Isn't the point of 
diversity to provide options.

I'm trying different distributions because I want to find the right one 
for me, I'm tired of hearing all the pessimists in the list tell me to 
pick one and stick with it, just because you've found that to be you're 
best option doesn't mean it will be mine. I'm surprised and even angry 
that no one in the list can relate to that, there are well over a 
hundred distributions out there each one different from the last in some 
way and each one appealing to a different audience. Telling me to stick 
with slackware or Fedora would be just like telling a slackware user 
that he or she can only use Lindows and would have to stick with it 
thinking happy thoughts until it magically started working the way 
they've always wanted their ideal distro to. I think its time for some 
of you people to take a look at reality for what it is, this isn't just 
some dream where given time everything will become perfect, if you want 
something really good then you have to look for it, I won't just give up 
and settle on something thats second rate nor will I deny that there's 
the possibility of a distro out there that suits me.

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