Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 192.168.1.51]
on October 16, 2008 08:50 PM
Having used Linux for a while now and being pretty intimate with the command line, on desktops I believe no user should have to resort to the CLI to get something done. Although a lot has improved over the years. I have experienced that Mandriva is one distro where I pretty much have never had to go to the command line to get something working. In saying that, Ubuntu's installer isn't as nice. Not as simple, or as fast as Mandriva's. And Ubuntu might have a larger community but the issues it has, from my experience are show stoppers. This comes from someone who has used Ubuntu since 5.04
With each release getting worse and worse than the one it replaces. Some would disagree and say they have made significant improvements. From your point of view perhaps. But my reasons aren't just skin deep.
Mandriva on the other hand has worked flawlessly for me. I started life on Linux with Mandrake, then went to RH. Followed by SuSE. Ubuntu for a while. A couple of other distros I use on the side. And now back to Mandriva. I've done a circle and I think I'll be here for a while. Why? I'll tell you what worked, use it as a guide to illustrate what didn't in the penultimate distro I was using.
Wifi card that always worked and bought for that specific reason continues to work in Mandriva without a single visit to the command line. Apart from telling it its passkey and which access point to use, it works. The last distro did too, but then one release somewhere in the middle stopped that, to which I needed to start fiddling to get working.
xOrg always works. The previous distro's updates would always break a generic install. Nothing special. No choice but to use the command line.
This one is a nutter... my keyboard. Nothing special. A Dvorak keyboard, always worked. Never an issue. Until about 12 months ago. It didn't work any more. In Mandriva, it works just fine, during the live install session and to my disbelief, after installation and reboot.
I couldn't feel comfortable giving my Nan or Pop Ubuntu, but I could with Mandriva.
The community is smaller with less information about how to fix things compared to Ubuntu.... maybe because it actually works to begin with and any problems are generally trivial.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 192.168.1.51] on October 16, 2008 08:50 PMWith each release getting worse and worse than the one it replaces. Some would disagree and say they have made significant improvements. From your point of view perhaps. But my reasons aren't just skin deep.
Mandriva on the other hand has worked flawlessly for me. I started life on Linux with Mandrake, then went to RH. Followed by SuSE. Ubuntu for a while. A couple of other distros I use on the side. And now back to Mandriva. I've done a circle and I think I'll be here for a while. Why? I'll tell you what worked, use it as a guide to illustrate what didn't in the penultimate distro I was using.
Wifi card that always worked and bought for that specific reason continues to work in Mandriva without a single visit to the command line. Apart from telling it its passkey and which access point to use, it works. The last distro did too, but then one release somewhere in the middle stopped that, to which I needed to start fiddling to get working.
xOrg always works. The previous distro's updates would always break a generic install. Nothing special. No choice but to use the command line.
This one is a nutter... my keyboard. Nothing special. A Dvorak keyboard, always worked. Never an issue. Until about 12 months ago. It didn't work any more. In Mandriva, it works just fine, during the live install session and to my disbelief, after installation and reboot.
I couldn't feel comfortable giving my Nan or Pop Ubuntu, but I could with Mandriva.
The community is smaller with less information about how to fix things compared to Ubuntu.... maybe because it actually works to begin with and any problems are generally trivial.
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