[CLUE-Tech] Mandrake 8.0 or SuSE 7.1?

[Cyberclops]

Linux is definitely geek friendly, but it has a way to go in the user
friendly department, but that's where I feel the clubs could come in. 
After SuSE 7.1 I don't want to go back to M$ as all.  I don't use
Windows any more, mostly because I don't want to.  Windows ends up being
more hassle than SuSE 7.1.  I would just like to learn how to make my
own SuSE that has a friendlier menu system and perhaps adjust the
permissions so that I can use the system more easily myself.  I would
like to log into root the least amount possible.

Brandon N wrote:
> 
> The point of Linux is that you have a choice.  You can have it as
> advanced and geek-friendly or (eventually) as user friendly as you like
> it.  I'm currently setting my grandmother up on a linux system because
> I don't want to hassle with windows every time she breaks it, or
> something gets corrupted.  With linux, you don't have to have automatic
> configuration utilities, but for some they are nice.  If you really
> want, you can build the system completely from scratch, and you'll
> always have that option.
> 
> -- Brandon
> --- Nicholas Perez <Nicholas_Perez at excite.com> wrote:
> > RANT_MODE=1;
> > Maybe it is just me, but why on earth should linux attempt to become
> > user
> > friendly? Why should Linux become a Redmond-esque clone, trying to
> > immitate
> > the ui? Personally, I like Linux at the level it is at. Sure it's no
> > OpenBSD
> > when it comes to installation(thank god, because that is a
> > nightmare). But I
> > don't want flashy desktops filled to the brim with pointy-clicky
> > icons with
> > all sorts of frill and lace and cpu cycle eating, mem hogging
> > "desktop" apps
> > and "docking bars". If you are unable to navigate through a *nix
> > system
> > without a mouse and icons, if you are unable to hand edit config
> > files, read
> > the right man pages to accomplish the right tasks, figure out and
> > solve
> > problems on your own then you need to go back to windows/mac. I for
> > one am
> > seriously scared of automagical configurators and so should you. I
> > don't see
> > *nix going to the common man anytime soon. Let Microserfs and Apple
> > handle
> > "user friendliness". Because *nix is user friendly, it just tends to
> > be
> > choosy about its friends.
> > RANT_MODE=0;
> 
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