Linux and me

[]H[ellboy]

why do I have to go pure debian Shrimpo?

[Shrimp]

Becuase then you have access to a massive selection of packages/applications available, rather than just a few your distro chooses to make available.

[]H[ellboy]

aaahhhhhh but would original debian be as easy as the other distro's to install and nmanage?

[crash]

I've heard that Debian can be a bitch to install, but is very powerful and customisable.

[Shrimp]

You've heard wrong :)

You can have a full machine from scratch to working in quicker than it takes to install XP :).

Installation is pretty much no more complicated than chosing a keyboard layout, setting time zones, partition schemes, etc., nothing any other OS doesn't ask, and it's certainly no more difficult than anything else.

[sneaky]

But does it come with a nice user friendly GUI?

[Shrimp]

You can install any GUI you like with absolute ease. Gnome, KDE, whatever...

[Cripple-X]

Yeah!! Linux installs very easily, there's alot more options on most distros as to which additional components you would like to install, and the GUIs put XP to shame IMO. But I found myself getting stuck a bit with having to do the shell commands like makefile and unzip gzip yaddadadadaa so I actually gave up on my foray into Linux, which was a pity though. I'm gonna get my old PC running on Linux again then I can bother Shrimp whenever I get stuck. :D K?

[Zyron]

but its soooooo big and will take loooooooooooooooong to download :boohoo: