the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 3/4/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> At this point I think I'll most likely install a debian thing and an rpm
>> thing and see if I can get the apps for which I use linux to run
>> dependably.
>>
> 
> As always in Linux land, you try it, you like it. You don't like it
> you move on to something else.

But I like to cut that process of elimination down to something 
reasonable.  My raison detre is not to spend my life fussing with a box.
> 
> I've tried dozens over the years. My needs are free and easy. If it
> costs money, fugeddaboutit. 

I am more than happy to trade money for performance and ease of overall 
operation, including having things work immediately.  That's one reason 
why I have a Mac; I'm happy to pay for software (and a box) if it works. 
   And it's also why I run linux; 'cause it works better than M$.  My 
time is worth money (I'll bet yours is, too) and if it takes me a month 
to get some silly thing working, that's money that I'm not making, or 
time I could spend sailing and mixing martinis.


> If it ain't easy to get my loved ones
> going (Firefox with complete mplayer support - yes that includes the
> evil codecs -, Apache, PHP, MySQL and Postgres, build from source
> support and associated libraries, and just now wireless support),
> fugeddaboutit.

I would agree with that.

> 
> At this point, every time I try something other than Ubuntu, I find
> that something isn't easy, so laziness wins out.
> 
> Unfortunately I have one additional requirement at this point - to get
> sound working on my Thinkpad R51, and thus far none of the usual
> suspects seem to be up to the task.

Oooops.  Thanks for the warning.



-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"