From: Adam 

Mike N. wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:20:01 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
>> You know reading the multitude of threads springing up suddenly about doing
>> things with Linux and it makes me wonder if its ready for mass desktop use,
>> even now after many years of steady improvement.
>
>   It's close for some people who only need E-mail, Internet, and Word
> Processing.  Key points: you still have to have a local Linux support
> person.   From that point of view, it only makes sense for home systems of
> people who also use it for work - the employees of the state of
> Massachusetts if they all move to Linux for example.   Otherwise, the Mac
> makes it the most friendly.
>

It's also the best choice for "super users" e.g. developers etc.
more & more meeting I go to with archtects & other uber-techies
from the likes of accenture etc the lappies are either macs or linux (most
often Ubuntu or Suse).

>> Theses messages make it
>> clear there are many secret command line incantations that one must know to
>> do many things.
>
>    RedHat is not the most advanced in terms of GUI-everything.  Other
> distributions are better in the GUI area.   My requirements are different -
> like absolutely being able to run, not being disabled by the whim of the OS
> manufacturer, and pretested, tightly controlled updates.    I can move my
> current development into another distribution if necessary.
>
>    There are GUI ways of doing things that I have not investigated since I
> want to know how to script things from the command line when I get to that
> point.


Posting a distro chooser on another thread


Adam

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