How do you choose a distro?
I suspect many make their choice based on wallpaper. First impressions count and some are easily seduced by a pretty face. Mess #7 from Redmond is one example but there are others too, like that OS with big burgers and fruit.
Others I suspect make the choice based on their first experience. Once they find something that works they never stray from it. I picture them chanting about their “lucky distro” as they push the power button.
Then there are those (like me) who value speed, functionality and ease of use above all else. These people eschew appearances and go for the jugular. Being pretty doesn’t even enter into the equation. Like me they could give could give rats a$$ less about wallpaper or shiny baubles, that’s why I use Puppy Linux.
So what’s your story? How do you choose an OS? Is it wallpaper, shiny baubles, a pretty (inter)face, beginners luck or the need for speed and ergonomics?
Critical in the choosing for me...
...was getting a second machine. (Now I have 4, mostly used. All sort of in the build.. some people jus' got no restraint ner discretion.)
So, some room to experiment, to try Linux as
an O.S. One I'd always wondered on and thought I must when I could.
Without the angst that goes into screwing around with a (my) single box
full of several years of acquisition and even some real work.
VERY liberating...clueless as to which or where until I read...
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SimplyMEPIS 7.0
13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop.
by Kim Brebach
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html
Who said..
"Of the distros designed for users who're not up to command line acrobatics, SimplyMepis impressed me the most. It crept up on me over time, since it's not as showy as Mandriva or as fast as LinuxMint or as well-upholstered as Novell's SLED."
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So I did. And it's been good to me. Which is not in the least to denigrate ANY other. Just that it and K[U]buntu are the only with which I have any experience. And now that Mepis has committed to Debian I have both Debian and Ubuntu to follow.
And now to an O.T. and why I even found this link and source.
Which is that pretty damned soon, I'm going to have to move my XP to a new disk and have been treasuring saikee's terrific 2004 instructional.
So, glad (fairly nervous about the undertaking-me) to find him(?) still at it.
But later for that on the appropriate thread.
Good to be here in the face & spite of my registrational issues....
never was good at fine print.