Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 04, 2005 06:06 AM
I'm using SimplyMepis on my laptop and it detected and configured all of the hardware no problem. Wireless works great, as does ethernet and everything else.
I used SuSE and Mandrake for several years, and got sick of the dependency hell of installing software. I tested several Debian based distros and found SimplyMepis to be very easy to install and use. Hardware detection and configuration was automatic without any problems. Nice desktop.
While I edited the sources list to suit me, it's good for a new user as-is. I'd highly recommend it for a new Linux user.
But I also agree with the author in that there is NO perfect Linux distro out there today. We find one that suits us and stay with it. Personally I'll stick with the Debian-flavored distros from now on.
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Re:You still didn't answer the question
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 04, 2005 06:06 AMI used SuSE and Mandrake for several years, and got sick of the dependency hell of installing software. I tested several Debian based distros and found SimplyMepis to be very easy to install and use. Hardware detection and configuration was automatic without any problems. Nice desktop.
While I edited the sources list to suit me, it's good for a new user as-is. I'd highly recommend it for a new Linux user.
But I also agree with the author in that there is NO perfect Linux distro out there today. We find one that suits us and stay with it. Personally I'll stick with the Debian-flavored distros from now on.
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