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Originally Posted by Aijaz Akhtar
No more woes, but an observation I want to share. I have been ?fiddling? with Linux and as Gnurag put it that I am installing many distros, I have come to some conclusions. If the developers can put a thought to it, the Linux as a desktop is sure to win over WIN.
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See, I am using Debian at my home and office both. I am totally satisfied with the look and feel, i.e. overall flavour of Debian. I find that KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10 are as friendly as Windows in many respects. I install software using
Synaptic . I do not face any dependency problems.
What i really believe is that we'd start liking GNU/Linux distros when we stop cribbing and comparing it with Windows. True we may miss certain things like watching certain video formats or playing certain games. But there's hardly anything we can do about it.
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Linux can be said really ready for the desktop when the GUI is as user friendly as linspire and installation of additional software as easy as in Windows.
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Besides, there is no consensus on the use of commands too.
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Each and every command and config file has a predefined syntax which try to conform to System V standards. What may happen (
for example), at times is that some distributions have some particular view about security. So Ubuntu for instance disables root's password. In this particular case you have to use
sudo instead of
su . Hence the commands sugested by your friends may not work.
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Originally Posted by Aijaz Akhtar
Nor in the jargon in various distros. Say, some call partitions like hda1, hda2, (and sda for removable media etc.) others call them sda1, sda2, or even sda-1, sda-2. Once I learnt to use the editing of fstab file in some distros, that did not work in others.
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That is why i insist people to take some time to understand carefully their requirements. and select their best distribution. Hopping from one distro to another just because their friend suggested will land you up into much more confusion (only applicable for new users)
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... I even do not know if the console I am working is Bash or some thing else??
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$ echo $SHELL should tell you. Even
$ ps will list the shell you are currently running.