Subj : Re: Is (Redhat) Linux just a cheap version of Windows? To : comp.os.linux From : fugacious Date : Mon Sep 06 2004 01:47 am RoyalHeart wrote in message news:<4137C88C.1070003@barnwellscREMOVE.com>... > Patrick McDonnell wrote: > > Hey genius, > > > > Did you try searching google? Or do you feels its below you because it > > wasn't around during Version 7? > > > > > I've been lurking in the shadows quietly monitoring this news group. > I've tried RH 5.2 on a Zenith Z-NoteFlex laptop (486DX2-50, 24MB RAM, > 200MB HD -- yes, 200MB hard drive), and actually got it to work, though > with such little space on the HD, there were very few apps I could install. > > Then I tried MDK 6.something (or was it 7.something?) on a P2 machine I > built (256MB RAM, 30GB HD), and like it very much. However, after > spending a day or two getting the modem working, and several more days > trying to get the MIDI synth on my sound card (SB PCI512, which has been > moved into a new home, my current system, an AMD XP2200+, 256MB RAM, > 120GB HD), I gave up, and went back to Win95 (I now use Win98 Lite). > > It's now a few years later, and I'm willing to give Linux another try. > I'm looking at either Redhat or Mandrake because I've tried both, as > mentioned above. RH I can buy locally; MDK I'll have to mail-order. I'm > leaning a bit towards Mandrake, but shipping charges make Redhat look a > bit more appealing. Hmmm... Which to buy... (drums fingers on desk) > > Then I read Patrick McDonnell's post above, for a second, I thought, > "with an attitude like that, why in heck do I want to try Linux again? > Just because he knows a lot about Linux doesn't mean others do." > > This was followed by a second thought: "Google doesn't answer every > question I wanted an answer to, nor provide a useful result within a few > minutes of perusing the search results. I've spent HOURS going through > close to a THOUSAND search results and didn't find anything close to > giving me the information I was looking for." Correct you could put a monkey in front of google and get nothing relevant. GIGO still holds true in the internet search arena. > Google is a useful tool, nevertheless. Some people just don't think to > use it, and would prefer a quick, simple answer, without being > condescended to or treated as "not-one-of-the-elite-Linux-geeks" class > just because I'd rather use a GUI than the command line (myself > included; give me answer now and let me get on with what I'm doing, and > later on I'll learn the details). (BTW, when I was exploring Linux those > years ago, I DID use the command line, bash in particular, and thought I > did quite well after using it for only a few weeks. I preferred MC for > browsing around my hard drive, though.) I like to have a choice of GUI or command line depending on what I'm doing. GUI or CLI neither proves you're elite or otherwise. > So, here I am, having read the above post, and wondering how many people > decided NOT to try Linux because of the attitude of SOME of the Linux > geeks on this NG. I, however, overlook the rudeness of these particular > folk and will continue toward a decision of which distribution to get. > Until then, I shall continue to gather information, not only on which to > choose, but Linux in general, and shall file it away in /usr/local/info > (or is than /home/linux/info????? Give me time, I'll remember). *shrug* I'm going to be absolutely blunt. This newsgroup is pretty much open warfare, if you've come here for some touchy feelie uplifting experience you will mostly be disappointed. It's an advocacy group and the original poster was being a jackass troll. > Oh, and I am NOT a troll, just an amused lurker. whatever > Hmmm... In the Author's Note to the Novel I am writing, I state that the > novel "was written using Star Office 5.2 running under Windows 98." If I > can find the Linux version of SO 5.2, I shall move the novel over to the > Linux platform and thence change that line to "was written using Star > Office 5.2 running under [Redhat|Mandrake] Linux (version number here)." > 'Twould be a boost, 'twould it not, to the Linux movement? (When it's > published, that is.) > > Cheers, and LLL (Long Live Linux). Good luck with your novel. Perhaps if you strike it rich like a JK Rowling your choice of operating system won't matter so much. .