What I'm coming to realize is that I have taken my computer knowledge for granted: I've been in Windows since 3.1 so as stuff gets moved around transitioning between versions isn't so tough. What I'm going through is really nothing more than what I went through when I was first introduced to Windows, to whit: I'm still figuring out where stuff is.
Every time I try a new distro, I learn something new that makes the next attempt seem easier. This has nothing to do with the OS and everything to do with my own learning processes. So there.
And this is where the water truly turns murky. I don't really care about look and feel, now I want to know which OS I want because of how it works behind the scenes, something which I am not qualified to judge. Seems to me, though, that there isn't a big difference between the distros when it comes to that. I want a file server and - down the line - a computer to serve as a DVD burner so I don't have to tie up my main machine.
Any of the ones I've tried would do that. I just need to catch up.
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Date: 2008-01-18 20:48 (UTC)What I'm coming to realize is that I have taken my computer knowledge for granted: I've been in Windows since 3.1 so as stuff gets moved around transitioning between versions isn't so tough. What I'm going through is really nothing more than what I went through when I was first introduced to Windows, to whit: I'm still figuring out where stuff is.
Every time I try a new distro, I learn something new that makes the next attempt seem easier. This has nothing to do with the OS and everything to do with my own learning processes. So there.
And this is where the water truly turns murky. I don't really care about look and feel, now I want to know which OS I want because of how it works behind the scenes, something which I am not qualified to judge. Seems to me, though, that there isn't a big difference between the distros when it comes to that. I want a file server and - down the line - a computer to serve as a DVD burner so I don't have to tie up my main machine.
Any of the ones I've tried would do that. I just need to catch up.