[lug] Best Distro for Newbies with New Equipment (was DHCP Question)

[Hugh Brown]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Hugh Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:54 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> >
> >>Hugh Brown wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>I tried Kubuntu but found that I didn't like the sudo approach to
> >>>system management.
> [...]
> > But overall I felt like Kubuntu was more in my way than it was helpful.
> > It does seem to be the current distro of choice for a lot of folks.
>
> Well sure it's in the way.  It's Ubuntu, "a desktop that Just Works".
> But you shouldn't denegrate sudo for that.  I would call it the Red Hat
> approach to system management.  Or if you're really upset you could call
> it the Windows approach to system management.
>
> ;-)
> Dave


Windows is in the way much more often then (K)Ubuntu ever was.  Microsoft
tends to make decisions for you and then makes it extremely hard to do
something other than the way they've decided.   My problem is that I'm not
their target user so they nearly always decide poorly for me.

I do believe that sudo is useful and has its place.  I don't personally
prefer it for my home desktop.  My debian box doesn't get in my way.  I
hadn't intended to denigrate sudo.  Generally people gravitate toward the
tools that fit with their habits.  Kubuntu wasn't it for me.

Hugh