On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 14:39, Gavin Denby wrote:
Fair point, its my personal call, I should be asked to quantify. I personally have not had a good run with Fedora, and have found better smaller and faster desktops more useful for what we do here.
[snip] I have no real intention of checking out other distros. Mainly because I'm happy enough with Fedora. Fedora's very common and hence has lots of packages available and lots of documentation is about RedHat/Fedora. I don't actually use the "desktop" of any Linux distro so I'm unlikely to prefer one that has better "desktop" features. I also don't like KDE and a lot of the Desktop distros use KDE. I've never been able to pin point what exactly I don't like about KDE. But ever since 1.0 I've never liked it. I also tend to be far more productive at the command line than in a GUI. My standard way of launching most apps is click on the new terminal icon or open a new tab in an existing term, type the command followed by a &. Only the absolutely most common apps I use are on the panel. I rarely venture into the "Gnome" menu. And I rarely use the file manager.
Lets face it, Windows both server and desktop versions, as does MAC OS X, So why are linux distros not willing to be server of desktop focused..... or even have 2 versions. ( and for my money, the ones in the best position is Novell with SUSE, Ximian and their own networking history... They could really make some cool linux distros.)
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