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Best Desktop Distro?	by nhlinux	2003-10-22 22:26:33
lol they all have wine	by Celticess	2003-10-22 23:41:15
be they binary or be then compile your own. LFS doesn't have wine but you compile it in. Gentoo has wine in portage and you emerge it in. Mandrake has wine and you use the rpm to install... All distro's have their good points and bad. For newbies with no experience on anything other than windows I recommend mandrake. That is because mandrake is as close as you can get to windows while still being linux(and having linux stability). Mandrake is easy to install and easy to use.(default wm is kde in that and tho it's bright and a bit of a hog it's not bad as far as all in ones go... tho I also quite like xfce for a much lighter all in one desktop... beyond that I'm a big fan of the blackbox family of GUI's)... Gentoo is more complex to install and doesn't have the same pretty click and go installers that redhat varients like mandrake has. It is a completely compile your own system based on LFS much like Core is. SuSE is a good midrange distro that is easy to use and easy to install so I'm told. Debian kicks butt but the install is a bit odd and not as easy as some others... it is in the mid to hard range as far as how newbie friendly it is.(tho knoppix rocks and it's based on debian) Redhat I used to like but it had some bad flaws for awhile and some of those were it being competitive and releaseing a new distro too soon.(they were competing with mandrake) Mandrake has ease of use and like I said it's a binary/rpm distro only irritating thing is the "helpful" scripts become annoying when you get more experienced. Slackware is from what I can tell similar to gentoo and debian but not as hard as debian to install and has a few things that gentoo doesn't deal with. Gentoo tho a linux does use some bsd and debian things.(but it's linux standard complient) Anyways I suggest going to distrowatch.com and looking at the comparisions to form your own opinion. SuSE you have to buy or do an ftp install if you go with it... The others have iso's at linuxiso.org. If your gaming try transgaming wine. Winex also is apprently good. I have transgaming and regular wine installed tho really I mostly just use normal wine. Crossover tho is handy for those browser plugins that they stubbornly refuse to port to nix and for the odd other program or font. If you go with some distro that does use rpms... rpmfind is your friends as they say. You can find pretty much any rpm you might need lurking there or on freshmeat or source forge. :)
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psst. He's not new to Linux :) (n/t)	by DaNutBall	2003-10-22 23:46:41
yes I figured that by his name	by Celticess	2003-10-22 23:55:58

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