Re: XP is garbage

Guy Macon wrote: 
Chris Carlen wrote:

The different distros all have their own way of doing things, so no apps work the same across all of them. They customize the vanilla apps such as OpenOffice and Mozilla to integrate with their desktop and config tools, so you can't upgrade the apps with drop in packages direct from the originating projects. 

You just haven't looked in the right place.  There is a Linux distribution
that never customizes apps - they are exactly as they would be if you
got them from the author and did a default install.

See [ http://www.slackware.com ].

Each version gets worse, in direct proportion to how much more "smart" it tries to be. I am considering going back to Slackware with which I started 9 years ago, but I can't afford another 1-2 months of tinkering to get it all set up. 

I know the feeling; back then Slackware needed a lot or twaeking.
The latest version installs and runs with a minimum of tinkering.

Interesting. I am about convinced that when I have time to move away from this quirky mess of Suse 9.1, I will go back to Slack.

How's the ease of use of hotplug with USB flash drives on Slack? Do you have the most recent 10.1? I downloaded it and haven't used it yet. What a waste of bandwidth, huh?

And no matter what I do, more and more of the web sites that I simply must use to run my life, have show stopping quirks or issues unless IE is used. Or even more depressingly, they work with an alternative browser such as Firefox on Windows, but not on Linux. 

Alas, you are right.  I still keep a Windows 200 box on my local
network to run IE and PowerBASIC. :(



And I'm not talking about superfluous sites, but rather financial, etc.



Good day!




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