[plug] Mandriva Free Spring 2008

[Kev]

Yes, my sentiments exactly.  I don't recall who it was, but some 
(in)famous yank polly once said, "It's amazing how absence of choice 
clears the mind."  I didn't realise there was another one of us using 
Xandros.

Kev



Jim Householder wrote:
> I quite agree.  Too much choice can be bad.  I've lost track of the 
> number of hours (weeks?, months?) spent dithering over nearly equal 
> choices...
>
> I dabbled a bit with GNU/Linux for several years, but did not 
> seriously use it until I found Xandros.  While Debian based, it got me 
> started.
>
> Jim
>
> Paul Antoine wrote:
>> My experience with people is that simplicity is indeed the reduction 
>> of choices hit on introduction to something new.  It would appear to 
>> be human nature to be overwhelmed easily by a great deal of choice.  
>> Indeed recent research points to wide choice as a major psychological 
>> stressor of the modern world.
>>
>> I feel Ubuntu does a very reasonable job of selecting a useful set of 
>> initial choices for those at whom it is primarily aimed: the average 
>> person switching from a zero-choice windows environment or not used 
>> to installing an operating system.
>>
>> Ubuntu is *not* aimed at the literate and advanced user though as one 
>> such user I find it very comfortable to work with.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Gavin Chester wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 22:10 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
>>>  
>>>> A feature I did not like was the fixed set of packages installed.  
>>>> No choice at all,
>>>>     
>>>
>>> <unintended flamebait>
>>> But you can't condemn it for that since isn't that also what the
>>> over-popular ubuntu has been doing since day one? That's one big reason
>>> I have only dabbled with ubuntu, never making it my chosen distro. IOW,
>>> it's not the first and only distro to think simplicity resides with
>>> reduced choice (at least until the user understands how to add packages
>>> with this thing called a 'package manager')
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> Gavin
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Kev Downes
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We used to use and recommend Xandros but they went to the dark side
So we'll soon be using and recommending Debian Etch
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