29 Jun
2004
29 Jun
'04
7:40 p.m.
Hi,
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Actually, I didn't feel the need to take part. It suffices to
watch some people's ravings on Usenet for instance.
When the concerns have been discussed to death,
and there's
no single answer, resp. it is essentially a question of
religion, I really don't see a point in continuing/repeating
a discussion, and I consider it a waste of time. Sorry if I
chose too hard a word to describe this.
I certainly believe that you have discussed this to death already. But the problem remains one for everybody who
considers trying Linux. I
cannot believe that people who have sufficient knowledge and who have
discussed the matter, and thus know the different points of view, just
watch the newbie struggling, "oh, he'll be alright sooner or later".
The objective of Lilux is to promote Linux, so why not help new users
with "everybody's first problem"?
Maybe we could find some typical flamefests as archived on google
groups, and link to those. I don't really think it would be too
helpful.
I'd rather believe in the hands-on approach. If someone's
progressed sufficiently to start administering his/her system,
just show them the different approaches, from the different
distros. Have people shoot themselves in the foot and learn
from their mistakes. They'll quickly enough learn the advantages/
disadvantages of the different variants, and form their own
(informed) opinions. I don't think this is something that can
be deduced from some matrix on a web page.
If we're talking "Otto Normalverbraucher", you'll need to use
something that dumbs things down as far as possible - there,
you can throw out most distros, maybe a couple of them will
fit the bill. If the person wants to tinker around some, but
not too much, the choice gets a little wider. For pros, the
choice gets still wider, but some "too dumb" distros will
fall back out... really, it's almost a case-by-case study
each time. No simple answer.
Greets Eric