[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

[Derek Fountain]

> will be all you need to do... If you find THAT level of editing/command
> line proficiency onerous, perhaps Debian ISN'T for you.. VIM or EMACS
> would certainly be a bridge too far...

You missed my point. Editing files doesn't bother me. It's doing the research 
and learning involved in knowing *what to type*.

Someone who has done the research and learning gives the distro they have 
learnt 10/10. He gives another distro 6/10, claiming that the tools aren't up 
to standard. In fact, the task he's doing is trivial - the problem is that he 
doesn't know how to use the tools (or, it seems, even which tools to use).

I once compared the feature sets of apt-get and rpm and concluded that apt-get 
was the superior solution, and that as soon as RPM doesn't do what I need I 
should move to apt-get. That was a couple of years ago. My favoured distro, 
SUSE, has supported apt-get for a year or more now, but I still haven't seen 
any point in switching to it.

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