[CS-FSLUG] Distro flame

[Christopher Rose]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>
To: christiansource at ofb.biz
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Distro flame
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:29:59 -0600

> 
> Time to start another distro flame, Mandrake is making me a little mad and I'm 
> looking at alternatives.
> 
> This time Mandrake is going behind my back and changing the file associations 
> I set in KDE, the tool for setting them is a real pain to use so obviously it 
> doesn't please me very much when this happens. I only wish I had kept a list 
> of the reasons I left SUSE so I wouldn't have forgotten why I'm not going to 
> give 9.1 professional another try.
> 
> What seems to be the biggest problem for me is when it comes to distributions 
> is that I want something that will take care of anything requiring a console 
> for me but when it comes to X11 and KDE I want full control from then on.
> 
> I believe Ark Linux was fairly nice if my memory serves but as has been the 
> case for a long time they are still alpha software *and* are far behind of 
> just about all other distributions when it comes to hvaing updated software.
> 
> Aside from going back to Windows for a few months and then checking out what 
> has happend to the distributions then I don't know what else to do, I'd like 
> to try more distributions but a lot of the commercial ones I've wanted to try 
> will have a lot of the features disabled so I will not be able to get a good 
> feel for the distribution. I've considered switching to Gnome to see if that 
> would improve things but as a developer who finds Qt so much better then GTK 
> and finds KDE so much more professional feeling compared to Gnome I think I'd 
> rather go back to Windows where I can still use Qt without my program looking 
> really out of place.
> 
> I could probably stick with Mandrake for a while but I'd like to hear what 
> other distributions I could switch to, if I could afford more CD's right now 
> I'd probably give FC 3, Libranet and a few of the new distributions a try.
> 
> Sometimes I think it would just be easier to get a Mac but since right now I'm 
> a little short of enough just to get CD's  a Mac is probbaly out of the 
> question ;-) .
> 
> Oh, almost forgot to kick off the distro flame war, remember everyone this is 
> all in good fun. Mandrake was coded by frogs, SUSE by lizards, Slackware and 
> Gentoo by people who love self inflicted pain and Gnome by monkeys :-) .
> 
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