Re: Still looking for the right OS

From: geek_stardust - view profile
It looks like, for me at least, that your research isn't well enought.
Any (yes ANY) distro can do all he things you are requesting for. Every

Your answer isn't well thought out. Not all distros handle those
requests equally. Plus some distros are bent for different WMs.
Certainly I don't want to use Foresight if I want KDE. Is it possible?
Sure, is it the best KDE experience? Is it even efficient?

distro can run kde and icewm, any distro can read ntfs partitions, any
distro can handle your sound card, any distro is easy and configurable,

As I said, if you'd read the post, the issue I had with Xandros was
hardware incompatibility with the sound. Support simply said it
doesn't work. No biggie, I wish Xandros well. Not all distros are
equal in these respects and you're assumption that they are isn't
helpful.

any distro will allow you to learn how to use the command line, compile
programs, and everything.

Likely. It still is something I want.

So, where;s the difference?

Well, the installer. Even package managers can be brought into a
distro, and if I have to, that's what I'll do, but finding the right
distro to start with to get all these things is the problem at hand. I
could just try one and get halfway into it and realize its not god for
my purposes as ubuntu simply wasn't. I had hoped to see the wisdom of
some who have already had experience with Linux distros and configuring
them. I have and will continue to I imagine :) That's what questions
like this are for.

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some other things that a user like you wont care.

Sad assumption.

Remember, Linux is just the kernel. A distro is the kernel and the
apps. Any app can run into any distro.

High praise indeed for linux.

I wont recomend you LFS, because the _installation_ will crack your

I'll make my way there. Currently I'm playing with PHP, but when I'm
done I'll either go back to play with Perl or forward to something new
like LFS.

head. Suse or fedora are for you...

Well, Suse might be a good starter, but unlikely the one for the long
haul. I haven't used the RPM style PMs from Suse or Red Hat yet so I
will eventually have to give them a try. If the distros are too
resource hungry, they'll be gone quick.

Slackware may eventually be it, who knows. A lot of people seem to end
up there. Will Slack still have a bright future if the 'owner' moves
on? Debian has a lot of future potential, and the apt-get is easy to
use, but dependency hell goes on and Ubuntu soured me on more Debian in
general.

Anyhow, a few people were quite informative, and to those, thank you!
To the closet windows lovers just trolling bashing Linux like Dan C,
its a good laugh too. As always, its an experience.

.

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