On Aug 26, 4:44 am, ".... www.FocusOnPanama.com ...."
<fights...@mailbox.now> wrote:
> I was a Linux freak for many years until some 4 years ago that, kind of out
> of necessity, I defected to the Microsoft camp lured by XP and Microsoft
> .NET and having grown tired of the feeling of having to assemble the car
> part by part before I could start driving. Sure there is Mono, the .NET
> alternative for Unix/Linux but why would I settle for an incomplete
> framework (at the time) when I could have the real thing and a wonderful IDE
> right away? that is why I migrated to "the other side"
>
> I haven't used Linux since, specially after a couple of GRUB disasters that
> rendered my whole PC useless until I managed some wizardry to recover my
> stuff (IMHO good olé LILO was the best).
>
> Yet, while I don't think I will be doing Linux full time, there are things
> where Windows will never be as good as Linux, I can think of multitasking,
> not eating up your space in mysterious ways, multitasking (did I mention
> that?), security and file system permission implementation.
>
> So I was wondering what is the best Linux distro at this point in time? I
> started with Yggdrassil (nice but extremely buggy), then stayed with Red Hat
> for many years and many releases up to one of the initial Fedora releases
> (don't ask me which). I am interested in doing another partition for
> securing my stuff.
>
> One of the things I loved from early Linux was the ample choice of fantastic
> windows managers such as enlightment with themes. Unfortunately over the
> years most of those simply faded and ended up with the boxy look of KDE
> (which I never liked) of the other one that I believe was based on GTK made
> by the mono people. That one I liked better but unfortunately for each new
> release they completely redefined and destroyed your desktop and the
> shortcuts of previous installations had to be manually redone, time
> consuming and unproductive. I hope that has improved, people want to get on
> to what they need to do.
>
> Anyway, let me know which distro you think it is the best at this moment
> based on my comments (which might be experienced as harsh by current-day
> linux fanatics).


Oh Boy, the very question that has puzzled me too. Reading between
the lines, it seems that you should just choose a distro which is
fairly recent, and is familiar. Red Hat sounds good, like in Fedora 5,
not bleeding edge. There is NO DUMMY FOR LINUX (nor for anything
else...are you a dummy??). Its hard, whichever entrance portal you
enter, but then you sound like you know what youre doing.

I am in the very same conundrum and tried to get around difficulties
with UbU. No dice. The best thing is to join forces with other
enthusiasts, or better yet, other people who want to use Linux because
of its advantages; in person yet. Those who talk about reading the
freaking manual doesnt know the full shape of the problem.