Greig McGill wrote:
Everyone else, can you submit (here) the best reasons for running your distro of choice? Things to consider:
1. Don't get personal - I don't care if you hate slackware - no inter-distro digs. > 2. I know we're informal here, but please no trolling or "how about BSD?"calls. BSD will be once everyone is running a GNU/Linux. ;) 3. Try and avoid rebuttle, unless it's pointing out a genuine error. 4. Remember, primary criteria is WE ALL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT IT.
I'd recommend against new users running Debian (dispite my running in at work and home) for the following reasons: * Unstable is unstable[1] and stable is very out of date at the moment * X configuration is horrible/non-existant * If you forget to load the module for your network card early on in the installer, it won't ask you for network configuration and you'll have to spend half an hour hunting down the required configuration files * dselect lets you remove dpkg [1] Not that it crashes, but packages come and go randomly and if you do an "apt-get update" at the wrong moment it'll insist that you can't update a package because the dependancies aren't there. 5 minutes later it works again.