Michael McDonald wrote:
On 1/25/07, Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> wrote:
In saying that, there are people who are more comfortable with a different distro. That could be because they are restoring vintage computers, because they have a specialist requirement, or because some people are after a challenge of installing a harder distro, for example, Gentoo.
But at the end of the day, Linux is Linux...
Mmmm... debatable. After having tried a few different versions for various purposes I would say there's considerable variety ... much more so than among the various flavours of "windows" that you may come across.
Software is a bit like buying a car. No one car suits everybody. All cars have their good points and bad points and you buy one according to the criteria (which includes $$, of course) that you decide ... or you may make an "emotional" decision!
Yes.... Where is I was coming from is that all cars have the following features... - Wheels (99% percent of them have four in case some brings up that old english car that had three wheels) - A steering wheel - 2 or 3 pedals - Gear stick in manuals, gear selector in autos. - an engine - and so on. While, some cars are different from others, the general idea is that fundamentally if you can drive a car, then you should be able to drive any car. The look and feel will be different. And depending on who you are will depend on whether you like a particular car or not.