Re: NEWBIE wants older LINUX for learning the basics
- From: et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Black)
- Date: 21 Dec 2006 21:12:33 GMT
John Hasler (john@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
Michael writes:
ONe of the great ways of learning is to try something, and that doesn't
happen if you first have to install something by hand merely to try it.
I do that all the time. 'apt-get install foo' and in a few seconds it's
there.
I actually do it with a certain game that I don't want to leave on because
then I'd be forever playing it. So I install it when I really feel like it,
and remove it after I've played it a few times.
But, my point was that for someone starting out, it may be daunting to
do such an install. Maybe "daunting" isn't the word, but there may be
a perceived difficulty in doing it. Letting the installer program toss
everything onto the hard drive gives you a chance to get used to Linux
before moving on to the next step.
For instance, that first install on the 240meg hard drive, it was Debian
and it didn't include Pine, which I was used to. At that time, even though
I had decades of computer useage and no, not on Windows, I didn't feel up
to figuring it out. So I actually switched to a different distribution, which
included Pine out of the box.
It's not that it's hard, only that right at that point it may seem like
a difficulty.
Michael
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